Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Knocknaranhy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknaranhy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02575, -9.31786
- SMR number
- CL008-038001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in undulating pastureland, with wide views in all directions, and overlooking another ring-barrow (CL008-038002-) c. 21m to the E. Indicated as a barrow on Robinson's (1977) map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This subcircular ring-barrow (ext. dims. 14.5m E-W; 13m N-S) comprises a flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 5.1m; H 0.2-0.3m) enclosed by a flat-based steep-sided fosse (Wth 1.7-1.95m) and a round-topped outer bank (Wth 2.15-2.8m; int. H 0.25-0.45m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.9m) and causeway over the fosse at the S.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL008-038001-_01.jpg View from N of W half of ring-barrow
CL008-038001-_02.jpg View from N of E half of ring-barrow
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 September 2022
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.