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
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02574, -9.31730
- SMR number
- CL008-038002-
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 the gentle SE-facing slope of a E-W ridge in undulating pastureland with wide views but overlooked by a rise c. 21m to the W, on which there is another ring-barrow (CL008-038001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated as a barrow on Robinson's (1977) map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This ring-barrow comprises a slightly domed steep-sided almost circular earthen mound (base dims. 13.6m N-S; 13.2m E-W; diam. at top 11.7m; H 0.3-0.9m) enclosed by a flat-based fosse (Wth at base 3.7-4.5m), which is partly filled with rushes and furze, and a steep-sided outer bank (Wth at base 4.7-7.7m; Wth at top 1.1-1.5m; int. H 0.55-1.7m; ext. H 0-0.45m) that is round-topped at W and E, and flat-topped at N and S. The bank is overgrown with furze from NNE-E, and a later field wall overlies its outer edge from NNE-SE.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL008-038002-_01.jpg View from NW
CL008-028002-_02.jpg View from SSE
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 September 2022
References
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.
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.
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.