Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Knockbarron, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbarron
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.11558, -7.72863
- SMR number
- OF036-087----
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
Cropmark of large circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 48m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. This enclosure is depicted as a post-1700 tree-ring on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Terry Connolly
Date of upload: 20 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.