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Barrow - ditch barrow

Kildromin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Kildromin, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kildromin
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52670, -8.41476
SMR number
LI032-244----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 470m SW of a townland boundary with Milltown. Enclosure (LI032-284----) lies 10m to SW and enclosure (LI032-243----) lies 162m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 160.01: AP 4/3633) as a semi-circular-shaped cropmark which is cut by a field boundary and land drain running NW-SE across the SW edge. Monument visible as a suboval-shaped earthwork (35m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a broad fosse (Wth 7m) and truncated by a field boundary running NW-SE across the SW edge, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 160.01

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 19 November 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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