Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Knockaunvickteera, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.