Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knocknascrow, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknascrow
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Temple Hill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Temple Hill, Carn
- Coordinates
- 52.34820, -8.24520
- SMR number
- LI058-001001-
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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
Situated on the summit of Temple Hill with commanding views of SE Limerick, N Cork and much of S Tipperary. Listed as Knocknascrow 5 (Costello 2016, 309). Roughly circular drystone-walled shelter (ext. dims. 2.7m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.6m; T 0.6m) built into SE side of massive cairn (LI058-001----) which is open to the S , although its E wall extends slightly further S so as to act as a windbreak. Possibly a shelter for shepherds (Costello 2020, 116) or for OS workers when constructing Trig. Station marking OD 2570 ft. on top of cairn on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map.
See attached photographs courtesy of Dr. Eugene Costello
Compiled by: Dr Eugene Costello
Date of upload: 25 August 2020
References
Costello, E. 2020 Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900. Woodbridge. Boydell.
Costello, E. 2016 Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD. Unpublished doctoral thesis, NUI Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - boundary cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.