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Barrow - unclassified

Knockatancashlane, County Limerick, Ireland

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Townland
Knockatancashlane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.60572, -8.46932
SMR number
LI014-163----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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The National Monuments Service's description

One of a cluster of 6 barrows (LI014-162/164/155001/155002/156----) in wetland, located to the immediate SW of large barrow (LI014-155001-). Identified by Melanie McQuaid, archaeologist, Forestry Service Inspectorate, Dept .of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in 2016 during site inspection of forestry drains and removal of saplings. The site was described as following; ‘It measures c. 19m in diameter (north-south and c. 0.6m high. It is cut by three forest drains and at the time of inspection the only indicator of archaeological material evident in the drain face or the minds created from the excavated soil was a small charred black fragment of bone’. McQuaid concludes that this monument is a geomorphic feature (McQuade 2016). The possible monument is visible as a circular green-coloured area on the Digital Globe orthoimage and on Google Earth image taken in 2006 and 2017.

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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McQuade, M. 2016 Unpublished report - Forestry Plantation in the townland of Knockatancashlane, Co. Limerick.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.

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