Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bruff
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47765, -8.56199
- SMR number
- LI031-160003-
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
On flat reclaimed pasture, 160m SW of Morningstar River and to immediate E of field drain which marks townland boundary with Garbally. A possible ditch-barrow (LI031-160001----) to immediate NW and possible ditch-barrow (LI031-160002----) to immediate SE. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 59; AP5/2059) as a sub-rectangular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 14m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW). Faint trace of cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, and visible on the Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 59 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.