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Enclosure

Brackyle, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Brackyle, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brackyle
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56953, -8.30522
SMR number
LI024-131----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture, on a slight knoll, 75m SW of forestry. A possible enclosure (LI024-132----) lies 110m to SE. Not depicted on OS historic mapping, although area of monument is defined on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map by a linear boundary running NNW-SSE, to E and is defined on the revised 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map by a curvilinear field boundary from SE-S-SW-WNW. Monument identified as a subcircular-shaped earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 116: AP 4/3676). Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 26m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. Vague traces of the earthwork are visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 116.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 24 July 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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