Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Kildimo, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildimo
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kildimo (Old)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kildimo (Old)
- Coordinates
- 52.61315, -8.80611
- SMR number
- LI012-097----
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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
Indicated as small settlement on the 17th century Down Survey map of Kenry barony (Hib. Reg.). Annotated ‘Kildimo’ (Old) on 1840 OS map. Divided into two villages during the early nineteenth century, when a new mail road was built between Limerick and Tralee’ (Spellissy 1989, 193). No building here now older than late-18th century in appearance.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of Upload: 3 August 2012
References
Spellissy, S 1989 Limerick The Rich Land. Ennis. O'Brien Publishers
Hibernia Regnum: A set of 214 barony maps of Ireland dating to the period AD 1655-59. The original parish maps have been lost but the Hibernia Regnum maps are preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Goblet 1932, v-x). Photographic facsimiles of these maps were published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton in 1908.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 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.