Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear 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
- 52.52449, -8.41528
- SMR number
- LI032-286----
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, 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.