Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
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
- 52.51972, -8.42997
- SMR number
- LI032-251002-
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 improved pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 80m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynagranagh, which follows the line of a public road. The second southern-most of a cluster of four possible barrows (LI032-251001-/02-/03-/04-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 197.02: AP 4/3610) as a small circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a very faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 10m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 197.02
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.