Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Knocknacrohy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknacrohy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55457, -8.37554
- SMR number
- LI024-161003-
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
In pasture immediately N of a linear drainage ditch and E of field boundary. Ring-barrows (LI024-244-/245-/161002-) are located to the immediate W and N. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58(03); AP 4/3681) as a circular cropmark. Visible as a U-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 58(03).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 23 July 2020
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.