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
- 52.57637, -8.31264
- SMR number
- LI024-279----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 forestry, on poorly drained ground cut by land drains and watercourses, the Dead River IS 250m to N which also marks a townland boundary with Pullagh. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a suboval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 169: AP 4/3725). Monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/05/2002 and the area is obscured by forestry on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/05/2002 and 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 169.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 12 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.