Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Arrybreaga, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Arrybreaga
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51478, -8.30201
- SMR number
- LI033-111001-
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 improved pasture. Earthwork (LI033-111002-) lies 30m to N and barrows (LI033-135/137----) 70m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106.05; AP 4/3620) as an enclosure. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam c. 52m) defined by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. The monument is truncated at N by a linear field drain running NE-SW, at SE by a drain running NE-SW and at S by drains running NW-SE.
See attached Bruff image labelled Bruff 106.05 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 14 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.