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Enclosure

Brickfield, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Brickfield, 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
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-

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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