Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Croom, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croom
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52564, -8.72714
- SMR number
- LI030-172----
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 pasture, 155m SW of the River Maigue, which also marks a townland boundary with Skagh. Enclosure (LI030-024----) lies 110m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Damian Finn and described as a black area of soil discovered during ploughing (local information). Possible site was described on inspection as an area of heat-shattered stones and charcoal flecked soil. Burnt spread is visible as a dark roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although it is not visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and sketch plan by Damian Finn.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.