Barrow - ring-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

In upland pasture, on a spot height (524ft/160m) which is located 60m ENE of a mound ‘Doonainy’ (LI032-139005-) which crowns the summit (537ft/164m) of Knockainy and the archaeological complex which consists of five contiguous ring-barrows (LI032-139001-/02-/03-/04/08-). A cursus leading to the group of ring-barrows lies 115m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Grogan (1989, 234) as a ring-barrow which he labelled as 'Knockainy West 7’.
Monument is visible as a subcircular-shaped earthwork on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP 348, 2). Not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 or 20/09/2020.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and ASIAP (348, 2).

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 9 November 2020

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 304/26 taken on 13/09/2002; 348/2 and 348/13 taken on 05/01/2003.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.