TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Barrow - mound barrow

Knockatancashlane, County Limerick, Ireland

The record

Townland
Knockatancashlane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.60569, -8.46877
SMR number
LI014-162----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

One of a cluster of 6 barrows (LI014-163/164/155001/155002/156----) in wetland, located to the immediate SE of large barrow (LI014-155001----). Identified as a possible mound barrow (diam. 11.5m; H 1m) by Melanie McQuaid, archaeologist, Forestry Service, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in 2016 during site inspection of drains and removal of forestry saplings. Described in 2016 as following; ‘The mound has been cut by one forest drain and at the time of inspection no archaeological material was evident in the drain face or the mounds created from the excavated soil’ (McQuade 2016). The monument is visible on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and the Google Earth image taken in 2006 and 2018.

See attached Google earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 3 July 2020

McQuade, M. 2016 Unpublished report - Forestry Plantation in the townland of Knockatancashlane, Co. Limerick. Forestry Service Inspectorate, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
See your own family's places on a living map