Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Knockadoo, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadoo
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doo
- Coordinates
- 53.95175, -8.35186
- SMR number
- RO005-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the crest of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered but poached mound (diam. 24m; H 4-4.2m) with a flat summit (diam. 5m) separated by a berm (Wth 2.7-4m) from a fosse (Wth of top 3.3-3.6m; int. D 0.5-0.9m; ext. D 0.1-0.3m). There are slight traces of a bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.1m) inside the fosse at E, and the fosse is surrounded by a hawthorn hedge (max. ext. diam. 37m N-S).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.