Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.52674, -8.37091
- SMR number
- LI033-152----
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 30m E of a watercourse. Enclosure (LI033-026----) lies 60m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as an oval-shaped area (dims. 17m N-S; c. 20m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.25m) from W-NE, reduced to a scarp (H 0.16m) elsewhere. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 22 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.