Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockroe (Mason), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (Mason)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.57483, -8.49131
- SMR number
- LI023-022----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture with occasional rock outcrops, on a S-facing slope. Square area (16m N-S; 15.3m E-W) with rounded corners, enclosed by low earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.45m) SW-NW but reduced to scarped edge (Wth 2.4m; H 0.85m) NW-SW, with external fosse (basal Wth 4.0m; overall Wth 7.55m; D 0.7m). Foss re-cut during drainage works NE-NW and is shallow (basal Wth 1.6m; overall Wth 5.8m; Dth 0.85m) NW-NE. Drainage ditch (long-axis c. N-S) to immediate E; drainaged material deposited along E, S and W sides of enclosure.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 1 November 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.