Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Croom, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croom
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.52425, -8.72707
- SMR number
- LI030-024----
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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, 240m SW of the River Maigue and the townland boundary with Skagh. Located 700m NNW of Croom medieval parish church (LI030-025006-). The enclosure is depicted as a large fort surrounded by a bank on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is later depicted as an enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m N-S; 50m E-W) surrounded by a fosse on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The monument is visible a tree-covered enclosure on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The enclosure is visible as an enclosure covered in scrub woodland on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/02/2009; 16/03/2016 and 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 29 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.