Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Drombanny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombanny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Browns Stone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Browns Stone (Site of) (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.62251, -8.58161
- SMR number
- LI013-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
Located on a W-facing slope in gently rolling poorly drained pasture. The monument is not visible at ground level. In the Ordnance Survey Name Books it is mentioned that at this site “…while digging for gravel vast quantities of human bones were found”.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.