Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Knockroe (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.