Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Knockane (Clanmaurice By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockane (Clanmaurice By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Curravarra
- Coordinates
- 52.41199, -9.84973
- SMR number
- KE014-018----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · 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
Depicted as a small circular feature (diam. c. 13m) possibly indicating cairn material on the 2nd ed. (1916) OS 6-inch map and named 'Curravarra' (not in gothic script). On the 1st ed. (1841) OS 6-inch map the name ‘Curravarra’ is attached to a possible cairn (KE014-110----) c. 500m to the WSW. In pasture at the top of an ESE-facing slope c. 180 N of a linear earthwork known as the 'Red Ditch' (KE014-017----). When visited in 2000, no visible surface trace was evident.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 19 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.