Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.52646, -8.40958
- SMR number
- LI033-063----
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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
In reclaimed pasture immediately N of a field boundary running NE-SW. Enclosure (LI033-064----) lies 55m to SW and ringfort (LI033-002----) 145m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified from Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 49; AP 4/3632) as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a fosse, transected at SSE by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.