The 1840 Ordnance Survey map marks a location nearby as 'Kildimo (Old)', a small annotation that points to a settlement that had already been left behind within living memory of the surveyors who recorded it.

The story begins well before that. Kildimo appears on the seventeenth-century Down Survey map of Kenry barony, the Down Survey being the sweeping land-mapping project carried out under William Petty in the 1650s following the Cromwellian conquest, which documented landholdings across Ireland in remarkable detail. At that point, Kildimo was noted as a small settlement, modest even by the standards of the period. What changed its shape was infrastructure. According to Seán Spellissy's 1989 study, the construction of a new mail road between Limerick and Tralee in the early nineteenth century effectively divided the settlement into two distinct villages. Roads of that era did not simply pass through places; they reorganised them, pulling commercial and domestic life towards the new route and leaving older cores to diminish or disappear entirely.

Visitors today will find a settlement in which nothing appears older than the late eighteenth century. The physical fabric gives little away about the medieval or early modern period, so the interest here is more archaeological and cartographic than architectural. Anyone curious about the older core would do well to consult the 1840 OS map before visiting, as the 'Old' annotation gives a geographical pointer to where the earlier settlement once sat. The surrounding area of County Limerick is well served by road, and Kildimo lies within reasonable reach of Limerick city, making it an easy addition to a broader itinerary along the lower Shannon corridor.