Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.41395, -8.41706
- SMR number
- LI048-023----
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 W of townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown North. A barrow (LI048-022----) lies 120m to the SW. Not marked on historic OSi maps. Identified as a rectangular enclosure from examination of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 2572) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph (BGE No. 2572) and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - ornamental lakeunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.