Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Brickfield, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brickfield
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (site of) (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.35434, -8.58588
- SMR number
- LI055-008----
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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 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that the ‘ruins of an old Castle are seen in the southwest of the above townland. The west wall and portions of the north and south ones are all that now remain. The greatest height of this building is at present fifty feet [15m]. The thickness of the walls is five and a half feet [1.6m]’ (O’Flanagan 1929, 97; OSL Effin Parish). Westropp (1906-7, 193) recorded the following details about Ardskeagh Castle in the townland of Brickfield (Baile an Bhaoilligh) or Kilbigley; 'Ardskeagh C[astle]. in Kyllbyggeley (Peyton, p. 238)'. No surface remains visible of levelled castle.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 October 2021
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1929 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Limerick collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Bray
OSL - Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters written by members of the Ordnance Survey's 'Topographical Department' (T. O'Conor, A. O'Curry, E. Curry, J. O'Donovan and P. O'Keeffe) sent to headquarters from the field (1834-41). MSS in Royal Irish Academy.
Westropp, T.J. 1906-7 The ancient castles of the county of Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26, 54-264.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.