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Enclosure

Knockballyfookeen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Knockballyfookeen, 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
Knockballyfookeen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.55129, -8.32063
SMR number
LI024-234----

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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

In wet pasture 60m E of the townland boundary with Ballyshoneen. Ring-barrow (LI024-232----) 30m to NE. The ringfort (LI024-052----) known as ‘Rathaniska’ lies 60mto W. The enclosure is not depicted on historic OSi maps, nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 94; AP 4/3672) as a circular enclosure (ext. dims. c. 29m N-S; 32m E-W). The site is faintly visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017, although it is not visible on the most recent image taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 94 and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 17 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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