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Brickeens

Na Broicíní

Archaeological records preserve traces of two earthworks in this Longford townland.

Recorded locationBrickeens53.65864° N · 7.82475° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Na Broicíní · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Brickeens · English · main form

Place & story

Earthworks on the hillside

The National Monuments Service records two ringforts at Brickeens, both labelled as forts on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map. At the western site, a 1976 report described a disturbed oval platform, about 28 metres by 22 metres, with fragments of an earth-and-stone bank. The later inventory description identifies a surviving arc of bank, with modern field walls defining the remaining circuit. The eastern monument occupies a low hillock: its raised circular interior measures 26.2 metres across. Neither record identifies an original entrance or surviving ditch. [2] [3]

Four inhabited houses

The original 1901 census places Brickeens in Moydow electoral division and Ballymacormick parish. It records eighteen people, ten male and eight female, in four inhabited houses. Earlier columns give twenty-two residents in 1881 and twenty-one in 1891, when five houses were recorded. These figures concern the Longford townland, rather than the village of the same name in Mayo. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Longford
Barony
Moydow
Civil parish
Ballymacormick
Coordinates
53.65864, -7.82475
Mapped area
0.59 km²
Logainm ID
33325 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Brickeens. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Brickeens ringfort, LF018-040---- · Patrick F. O’Donovan, National Monuments Service; uploaded 18 January 2012
  3. Brickeens ringfort, LF018-041---- · Patrick F. O’Donovan, National Monuments Service; uploaded 18 January 2012
  4. Census of Ireland 1901: County Longford, printed p27 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company, 1901
  5. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.