Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
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
- 52.55017, -8.31961
- SMR number
- LI024-237----
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 flat pasture 25m E of a N-S field drain and 125m E of the townland boundary with Ballyshoneen. The ring-barrow is 50m S of an earthwork (LI024-268----). The monument is not depicted on historic OSi maps. It is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12. Not visible on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 41; AP 4/3672) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 10m) comprised of a central mound surrounded by a fosse and external bank. The ring-barrow is faintly visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 41 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 17 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.