Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kildromin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildromin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.52191, -8.42059
- SMR number
- LI032-110----
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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
Enclosure described by O'Kelly (1944, 18) as following: A circular earthen platform surrounded by a fosse. Around the S.W., S.E. and N.E. sides. near the edge, there is a hollow concentric with the margin of the platform. This feature is not easily explainable but it probably indicates an effort to dig away the monument. The height over the field is 2' [0.6m] and overall diameter is 192' [58m]. Situated in mashy low-land'.
Monument described by Doody (2008, 135) as an 'oval ditched enclosure, c. 50m x 42m, with significant internal bank'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 09 August 2019
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Doody, M 2008 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.