Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Knockballyfookeen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockballyfookeen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55183, -8.31841
- SMR number
- LI024-053001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On elevated area of a gentle S-facing slope, in undulating pasture, with good views of Knockseefin/Pallashill to WNW (O'Dwyer 1964, 96). Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (8m N-S; 7.25m E-W) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.16m; ext. H 0.25m; Wth 3.55m) only visible from E-S-W-NW, elsewhere reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m; Wth 1.25m). A wide earthen field boundary running E-W (resembling a trackway), and a field drain are visible to the immediate S. Ring-barrow (LI024-053002-) and possible barrow (LI024-053003-) lie c. 50m to SW and E respectively. A high concentration of barrows are located within a 300m radius of this monument. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 15 July 2020
References
O'Dwyer, M. 1964 A Survey of the earthworks of the district of Old Pallasgrean (concluded). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 9, 94-8.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.