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Linear earthwork

Kildromin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, 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
52.52449, -8.41528
SMR number
LI032-286----

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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, 580m N of a townland boundary with Ballinlough. Ring-barrow (LI032-285----) lies 235m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff162: AP 4/3633) as a linear-shaped cropmark running NNE-SSW for the most part and turning roughly N-S for a short distance at the N end. Levelled monument is visible as a linear-shaped cropmark (L 320m) running NNE-SSW and turning at the N end where it runs (L 110m) roughly N-S, as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and as partially seen on Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 162.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 25 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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