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Barrow - unclassified

Kildromin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, 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
52.52228, -8.42714
SMR number
LI032-246----

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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, 80m W of a public road and 330m SE of a townland boundary with Rootiagh. Enclosure (LI032-245----) lies 240m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 158: AP 4/3634) as a faint circular-shaped cropmark. Levelled monument is visible as an oblong-shaped cropmark (33m NW-SE; 15m NNE-SSW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and is seen as a faint suboval-shaped cropmark (20m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW) on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/20.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 158

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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