Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
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
- 52.54938, -8.31643
- SMR number
- LI024-230----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On flat pasture 230m E of the townland boundary with Ballyshoneen. Ring-barrow (LI024-237----) 200m to WNW. The mound is not depicted on the OSi historic maps, nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages. Identified as a monument by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 162: AP 4/3673). The mound (diam. c. 17m) is only visible on the Bruff aerial photograph. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the ring-barrow labelled Bruff 162 and Google Earth
orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 17 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.