Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Brickfield, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brickfield
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1841)
- Coordinates
- 52.35311, -8.59113
- SMR number
- LI055-007002-
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 at S base of broad E-W running ridge, with good views from SE-SW. An enclosure (LI055-007001-) lies 100m to the NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Not shown on subsequent editions. Surveyed 1999 and described as no surface remains visible. Faint cropmark visible of levelled earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013. Faint trace of circular cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage date 4/4/2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 November 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.