Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Dromeenboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromeenboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58394, -8.34264
- SMR number
- LI024-107----
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
Situated on reclaimed pasture, 10m S of the Mulkear River which forms townland boundary with Killuragh. Monument identified as a roughly circular-shaped ring-barrow by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 146: AP 4/3730). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 10m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. It is not visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.