Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Knockderk, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockderk
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52010, -8.35008
- SMR number
- LI033-075----
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 wet pasture 220m E of the townland boundary with Ballynagreanagh. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 95; AP 4/3616) as a ring-barrow. Visible as circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 8.5m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 95 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.