Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.52613, -8.41541
- SMR number
- LI032-284----
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, 525m SW of a townland boundary with Milltown. Ditch-barrow (LI032-244----) lies 10m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 160.02: AP 4/3633) as a pennanular-shaped cropmark which is open to S. Monument visible as a pennanular-shaped earthwork (46m NW-SE; 45m NE-SW) defined by a scarp from SSW-W-N-E, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, not visible on Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 160.02
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.