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Barrow - pond barrow

Knockroe (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - pond barrow, Knockroe, 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
Knockroe (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.52666, -8.37925
SMR number
LI033-020----

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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 reclaimed pasture close to the summit of a ridge (OD 680ft.) known locally as ‘Oileán na crú’. Ringforts (LI033-021/023----) 15m to N and 70m to NE respectively. Monument depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at SW by a trackway running NW-SE. Poorly preserved monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as an oval-shaped depression (dims. 6m NNE-SSW; 8m ESE-WNW) with traces of a possible bank from NNE-E. Described in 1960 as a; ‘Platform 30 feet (9m) in diameter; has 5 foot (1.5m) wide bank. A ditch 5 foot (1.5m) wide outside bank, and outside this ditch another 5 foot (1.5m) bank. Both banks and ditch have a 6 foot (1.6m) gap on the east side where there is a well marked entrance running onto a platform (O’Dwyer 1960, 115; Knockroe 53). Outline of circular-shaped depression enclosed by a bank visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 3 April 2021

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 133/03, 04 taken 23/08/2000 and 353/7 taken 05/01/2003.

References

O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.

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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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