Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Brackyle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackyle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56315, -8.31768
- SMR number
- LI024-166----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture immediately E of field boundary that marks the townland boundary with Ballyluddy. Ringfort (LI024-026----) located 50m to SE. Not depicted on OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 100; AP 4/3677) as a circular shaped cropmark. Visible as a levelled circular shaped area (approx. diam. 20m) defined by a low fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. This imagery also shows a levelled linear feature possibly an old field boundary intersecting the monument at S and running SE to ringfort (LI024-026----).
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff Survey aerial image labelled Bruff 100
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 24 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.