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Barrow - ring-barrow

Knockaunvickteera, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Knockaunvickteera, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockaunvickteera
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.02542, -9.28518
SMR number
CL008-041----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating pastureland on a N-facing slope, overlooking the E-W flowing Aille River c. 40m to the N. Listed as 'Ring-barrow possible' in the RMP (1996). This almost circular ring-barrow (max. dims. 13.8m N-S; 13.2m E-W) comprises a low dome-shaped mound (diam. 6.5m; H 0.2-0.3m) surrounded by a flat-based fosse (Wth 2.6-3.8m; D 0.15-0.3m). There is a shallow circular depression (diam. 1m) in the centre of the mound. (Westropp 1907, 90-91)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 27 September 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1907 Miscellanea: Earthworks of the "Rathnarrow type" in county Clare. Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 90-91.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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