Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockcommane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockcommane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29813, -8.17926
- SMR number
- LI060-010001-
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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
Enclosure excavated by Bernice Molloy, which is described as 'a segmented gully or ditch that bounded an area 15m in diameter' (McQuade; Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 150-3). Radiocarbon dates place it in the Iron Age (357-47 BC) and it is associated with a bowl furnace (LI060-010002-) .
References
McQuade, M. Molloy, M. & Moriarty, C. 2009 In the Shadow of the Galtees, archaeological excavations along the N8. NRA Scheme Monographs 4.
Nearby in the register
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.