Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - embanked barrow
Knopoge, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knopoge
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79565, -8.82287
- SMR number
- CL042-091----
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
This site is located east of Knappogue Castle in a large field used for pasture immediately beside the Sixmilebridge-Ennis road. The surface of the field in which the site is located is uneven with long curvilinear natural banks of earth distributed throughout. The site is depicted as a hachured plan on the OS 6-inch-sheets. The site which overlooks the gently sloping ground to the south consists of a broad ditchless bank defining a roughly level subcircular area 29m in diameter. The bank stands up to 0.5m above the interior of the site and measures on average 8.7m wide. A farm gate is located just south of the enclosure leading onto the road. The remains of a byre and some other small structures are built on the bank at the south. No features were discernible on the interior of the site and there were no indications of an original entrance.
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 14/03/2012
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.