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
- 52.55259, -8.31845
- SMR number
- LI024-266----
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
In low-lying rough pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 190m E of a townland boundary with Ballyhurst. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Ring-barrows (LI024-053003-/265----) lie 35m to S and 125m to NW, respectively and a standing stone (LI024-290----) lies 45m to NE. Monument identified as a subcircular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 266: AP 4/3677). Monument is not visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 266.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 11 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.