Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Kildromin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildromin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52026, -8.41909
- SMR number
- LI032-249----
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
On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 80m E of a land drain and 180m N of a townland boundary with Ballinlough. Ring-barrow (LI032-303----) lies 140m to NNE and St Bridget’s holy well (LI032-111----) lies 180m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 164: AP 4/3611) as a rectangular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is clearly visible as an almost square-shaped earthwork (16m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE) enclosed by the remains of a bank (approx. Wth 4m) and an external fosse (Wth 4m), as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 164
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 331/22 taken on 05/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.