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Enclosure

Dromin South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Dromin South, 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
Dromin South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.43989, -8.58544
SMR number
LI039-083----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 pasture immediately S of the townland boundary with Dromin North. Possible ringfort (LI039-084----) lies 45m to E. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped woodland area (dims. c. 37m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by field walls. On both maps it is depicted within a woodland plantation. Partially hachured on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where a semi-circular shaped arc is shown at W only. The 1840 edition shows a pathway leading from a designed landscape immediately S of Dromin R.C. Chapel. The partial outline of a poorly preserved enclosure is visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-12 as a roughly semi-circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank from SW-NW and levelled elsewhere. Intersected at E by field bank running E-W to ringfort (LI039-084---). Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Could be the remains of a ringfort reused as a landscape feature such as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period. Alternatively could be the remains of a designed landscape feature of post-1700 date that is contemporaneous with woodland plantation.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 29 April 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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