Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dromloughan South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromloughan South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54683, -8.67742
- SMR number
- LI022-162----
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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
In pasture, on undulating S-facing slope, 90m W of townland boundary with Ballycahane Upper and 141m NE of townland boundary with Killeenoghty. Not depicted on the 1840 OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 OSi 25-inch map. Potential archaeological site identified from an examination of 1:10000 Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE No. 40, Site No. 022212). Visited by the ASI in 2000 and described no surface remains visible, irregular undulations visible at location of site. Monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 2020.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photo (BGE No. 40) with site labelled 022212
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.