Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dromkeen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromkeen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56975, -8.41209
- SMR number
- LI023-293----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. An enclosure (LI023-164----) lies 145m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 258: AP 4/3717). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken, where monument has been planted with forestry.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 258.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.