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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.41906, -8.41899
- SMR number
- LI040-135----
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 wet pasture, immediately S of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Hammondstown. Rectangular-shaped earthwork (LI040-133----) now in forestry to S. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular shaped platform defined by a scarp with fosse transected at NNW by stream. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular shaped area (diam. c. 27m) defined by a scarp, with fosse truncated at NW by a watercourse running NE-SW. Monument visible on aerial photograph (BGE 1/5000 2571) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Poorly preserved monument visible as depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map on the Digital Globe orthoimage. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage.
See attached gas pipeline aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 June 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 343/17 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.