What is recorded here

Knockroe Hill holds a buried mound near Lough Gur, detected beneath pasture in 2008 rather than seen on the ground. It lay within a short distance of a stone circle and another structure, suggesting the slope was once crowded with monuments. The mound has disappeared from sight, perhaps torn away by people, ploughs or time, leaving only its magnetic shadow beside the water.

In pasture on S facing slope of Knockroe Hill at the NE tip of Lough Gur, which lies 690m to W. Stone circle (LI032-060----) lies 12m to W and structure (LI032-322----) 15m to SW. Not depicted on any OSi maps. Identified by Geophysical survey (fluxgate gradiometer survey) in 2008 as Feature 6 in Area 2 and described by Cleary (2008, 42) as follows; 'Two other significant anomalies occur a short distance to the northeast of Circle P [LI032-059----]. The larger of the two registers as a circular area of negative magnetic gradient, approximately 13m in diameter, surrounded on the north by a discontinuous band of enhanced magnetic responses. The magnetic signature of this feature suggests that it may represent the remains of a destroyed mound, which was perhaps similar in size and form to that at Circle P [LI032-059----]’. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location maps of Geophysical Survey taken from Cleary 2008 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 2 April 2021

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