Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Knockatoor, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatoor
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Croonacrusha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Croonacrusha
- Coordinates
- 52.50525, -8.00577
- SMR number
- TS060-072002-
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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, lying prostrate (long axis NE-SW) adjacent to WNW of cairn (TS060-072001-). Sub-rectangular piece of cut sandstone conglomerate (L 1.04m; Wth 0.2-0.28m; T 0.2-0.22m) with narrow projection at one end. Worn punch-dressed effect on surface may be natural. Large irregular sandstone to SW. Site of holy well (TS060-072003-) adjacent to NW. According to OS Namebooks (O'Donovan 1840), this is the 'site of a well, [and] a small cairn with a cross upon it'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 09 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.