Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Dovecote
Drombanny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombanny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pigeon Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pigeon House;
- Coordinates
- 52.61786, -8.57806
- SMR number
- LI013-239----
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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
Octagonal-shaped dovecote (int. diam. 5m) located 100m ENE of Drombanny Castle (LI013-056----) also known as Thomas Power's Court. Annotated ‘Pigeon Ho.’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Described by Greensmyth (1994, 13) as following; ‘The Drombanna pigeon house is octagonal. The circumference on the outside is just under 25m. The length from of any of the walls on the inside to the opposite wall is under 5m. Seven of the walls have nest holes for eighty birds each, the eight wall, which includes the entrance facing west, has holes for forty birds’. Dovecote visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 3 July 2020
References
Greensmyth, H. 1994 Pigeon House at Drombanna. The Lough Gur & District Historical Society Journal, No.8, 13-14.
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.