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Knockroe
Limerick, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0918
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0918 (918)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Limerick
- Historic county
- Limerick
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockroe
- Latitude
- 52.57944
- Longitude
- -8.50554
- Altitude
- 193 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LI023-020
- National record
- record LI 023
- Wikidata
- Q31071674
Sources