Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockanena, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanena
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1917)
- Coordinates
- 52.97450, -8.68368
- SMR number
- CL019-012----
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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 rough pasture on a shoulder of land on the lower E slopes of Maghera with good views from NW to SE. Indicated on the OS 6-inch maps as a curving field boundary at the N extent of a field forming a roughly triangular area defined by straight field boundaries at NW and NE. A very regular overgrown flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3.4m; ext. D 1.5m) extending E-W for 33m and curving to NE for 25m with an external bank (Wth 8.4m; max. ext. H 1.7m). There are no traces of the fosse or bank continuing beyond the present remains and there a no such traces on available aerial imagery (2024). As there is less material in the bank than what would have been derived from the fosse this may have been a quarry with some material taken away. It is however, locally regarded as a fort.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.