Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.55876, -8.31405
- SMR number
- LI024-172----
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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 pasture, on N-facing slope, 147m W of Reask River which marks townland boundary with Cross and 68m SE of townland boundary with Brackyle. An enclosure (LI024-054----) lies 214m to SW. Not depicted as an antiquity on OS historic mapping. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 102; AP 4/3677) as a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 40m) enclosed by a tree-covered bank. Partial outline of monument visible today as a curving field boundary on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 102
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.