Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Cloghnadromin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghnadromin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61785, -8.48600
- SMR number
- LI014-129----
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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
On poorly drained floodplains of the Groody River which lies 55m to W. Identified by James Finucane (1993) as Site B and described as a small earthen mound (base Wth 5m) enclosed by a shallow fosse with external bank which may have been the remains of a possible ring-barrow (overall diam. 10m). Not depicted on the OS maps. Outline of mound visible on earlier OSi orthoimagery. Outline of barrow is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 7 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.