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Moated site

Knockroe (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Knockroe, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockroe (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.53346, -8.37016
SMR number
LI024-196----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a NE-facing slope in pasture abutting the townland boundary with Knockaunroe. Earthwork (LI024-069----) located 250m to SW. The site is not recorded as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map but is depicted as a five sided small field located on the site of the enclosure. Clearance of these field boundaries is recorded on the 1897 OSi ed. 25-inch map. The enclosure is visible as a curving earthwork surviving on the field surface on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 7 AP 4/3629) as an enclosure defined by a fosse (ext. dims. c. 58m N-S; 57m E-W). Visible on ASI aerial photographic survey 2002 (ASIAP (309) 35/36). The enclosure is faintly visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Bruff survey image showing the ring-barrow labelled Bruff 7, ASI survey image showing the enclosure view SW, and Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 8 September 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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