Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Island Dromagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Island Dromagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41548, -8.42084
- SMR number
- LI040-132----
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
In a conifer plantation, 70m E of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Ballynahinch. A possible barrow (LI048-021----) and an enclosure (LI040-134----) lie 90m to the SW and 110m to the NE respectively. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular feature on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2571) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage and on Google Earth orthoimages. Faint outline of possible ditch barrow visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph (marked 040241) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - ornamental lakeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.