What is recorded here

Knockaunatarriff holds a six-metre ditch barrow in County Limerick pasture, beside a stream and near another earthwork. Stenberger called it a possible grave in 1966, while modern satellite images still show its faint circular shadow. The dead may have chosen that quiet water edge, leaving only a shallow ring for the living to imagine.

In pasture with stream immediately to E, Knockaunatarriff lies 250m to SW. Earthwork (LI041-013016-) and ditch-barrow (LI041-013015-) lie 48m to the SE and 40m to the SW respectively. Not marked on historic OSi maps. Identified by Stenberger (1966, 39) as a possible barrow (Site V) consisting of one of ‘two barely distinguishable ring-shaped structures (LI041-013016-), one on each side of the stream which here runs from south to north’, described as a possible grave (No. V) which measured approx. 13m in diameter. Monument is visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) defined by a ditch on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached plan showing possible barrow marked Site V taken from Stenberger (1966) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 4 August 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 318/15 taken on 05/10/2002.

Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its presence indicates a tradition of burial and ritual activity in the landscape, though its wider significance remains unexplored due to limited documentation.

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