Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.55075, -8.31954
- SMR number
- LI024-268----
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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 improved, low-lying pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 135m E of a townland boundary with Ballyshoneen. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Barrows (LI024-235/237----) lie 30m to NW and 55m to S and enclosure (LI024-345----) lies 46m to SW. Monument identified as an oblong-shaped cropmark (15m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE) by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 268: AP 4/3677). Monument is visible as a very faint oblong-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 268.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 11 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.