Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
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
- 52.41402, -8.42286
- SMR number
- LI048-070----
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 poorly drained land in the centre of a modern conifer plantation, 20m E of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Ballynahinch. Moated site (LI048-021----) lies c. 100m to the NE. Not marked on historic OSi maps. Identified as a possible ring-barrow on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 73) 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) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 2 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.