Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Brickfield, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brickfield
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.35328, -8.59237
- SMR number
- LI055-007001-
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 pasture, on slight SSE-facing slope of broad E-W running ridge, with good views from SE-SW. An enclosure (LI055-007002-) lies 100m to the SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Surveyed in 1999 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (dims. 20m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.5m) from NW-W-NE, at SE and SW, reduced to a scarp (ext. H 0.3m) with external fosse (Wth at base 3.6m; ext. D 0.8m) from SW-W-N-NE. Breaks in bank at W (Wth 4m) and NE (Wth 2m). Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by a tree-lined bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI, ASIAP (305)19 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 November 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.