Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockainy West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockainy West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47676, -8.47976
- SMR number
- LI032-135003-
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
Small stone enclosure listed as Knockainy West 2 and described by Grogan (1989, 286) as a small circular-shaped area (max. dims. 15m x 10m) defined on S side only by a double kerbed wall.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 09 August 2019
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/15 date taken 05/01/2003; 304/24 and 304/25 taken on 13/09/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.