Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Knocktoosh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocktoosh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31581, -9.00476
- SMR number
- LI053-029----
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. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 2016 as possible burial site in blanket bog by a Teagasc farm inspector. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 10m) defined by a fosse, truncated at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached location map from An Teagasc and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Fulacht fia1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.