Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knockroe (Mason), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (Mason)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.57949, -8.50476
- SMR number
- LI023-312----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In elevated pasture on a steep SE-facing slope. Square area (5.5m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE) cut into hill-slope to NW and defined by earthen bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.25m) on NE and SW-sides; enclosing element reduced to scarp at SE-side. Cut into hill-slope to create a level interior that is now poached by cattle. Rock outcrop exposed at NW-side.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.