Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Knockroe (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52534, -8.37722
- SMR number
- LI033-151----
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 reclaimed pasture 200m SE of ringfort (LI033-021----). A well is located c. 40m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic 6-inch maps. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a single upright stone (H 1.45m) of sandstone that is rectangular in plan (W 0.4m; T 0.1m) with its long axis aligned WSW-ENE. Visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.