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Earthwork

Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Bruff, 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
Bruff
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47953, -8.56476
SMR number
LI031-186----

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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

On wet flat pasture abutting the Morningstar River to the N and a water filled field drain on the SW which marks the townland boundary with Garbally. Ring-barrow cemetery (LI031-160001/3-) located 250m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. It is visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 as a curving rectangular-shaped enclosure or small field (ext. dims. 39m NE-SW; 56m NW-SE). Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 56: AP 5/2059) as part of a curvilinear enclosure. The site is visible as a relic field enclosure on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006 and 14/09/2019 and may not be an antiquity. Could be a water channel associated with land-reclamation works of post-1700 date.

See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 56 and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 7 October 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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