Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockroe (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.52611, -8.37165
- SMR number
- LI033-026----
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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 reclaimed pasture 1.1km W of the summit of Derk Hill (OD 781 ft.). Enclosure (LI033-152----) 60m to NE. Monument depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 24m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by a bank from NE-E and from SE-SW only. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a circular-shaped area (dims. 23m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a low bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.8m) from NNE-ESE and from SSE-S, reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere. Interior slopes to gently to SE. Outline of monument visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 where a farm track intersects the monument at NW.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 30 March 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.