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Barrow - ring-barrow

Knockbrack, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Knockbrack, County Dublin, 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
Knockbrack
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Moats, Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Moats, Hachured
Coordinates
53.57519, -6.25759
SMR number
DU004-012005-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

Located on the northern slope of a saddle-backed ridge to the south of a townland boundary, c.17m east barrow of DU004-012004-. Tillage right up to the base. The site comprises a subcircular, flat-topped mound (diam. 11.5m; H 1.5m) with a shallow depression near the centre of the flattened top. It was formerly enclosed by a fosse (Hartnett 1957, 267). Part of an extensive barrow cemetery identified by Keeling (1983, 70, Site II).

See attached photographs courtesy of Ian Lennon

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Updated by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 29 October 2014

References

Keeling, D. 1983 A group of tumuli and a hillfort near Naul, County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 67-70.

Nearby in the register

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

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