Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Knockbrack, County Dublin, Ireland
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-
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 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.