Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Henge
Knockadoobrusna, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockadoobrusna
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.95072, -8.30120
- SMR number
- RO006-118001-
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
On top of the SW summit of a NE-SW ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 80m E-W; 73m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 7m at W to 11.3m at E; int. H 0.6m at W to 1.75m at E; ext. H 1.25-1.75m). There is no visible entrance and there is no surface evidence of the internal fosse and central platform recorded by Knox (1914b, 348). The large bowl-barrow (RO006-118002-) is outside the perimeter at E, and the perimeter of the enclose is straightened on this side. Bowl-barrow (RO010-001----) is c. 380m to the SW, and the henge (RO006-118007-) is c. 300m to the E. (Stout 1991, 283, west; Condit 1993)
See the attached aerial image taken from the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Condit, T. 1993 Ritual enclosures near Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Archaeology Ireland 7 (1), 14-16.
Knox, H.T. 1914b Dumha Brosna. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 348-57.
Stout, G. 1991 The embanked enclosures of the Boyne region. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 91C, 245-84.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.