Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.48011, -8.48988
- SMR number
- LI032-230004-
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
On a gentle N-facing slope, in improved pasture, 15m E of a townland boundary with Kilballyowen. Field system (LI032-230001-) lies 130m to W, enclosure (LI032-023002-) 60m to NW and ringfort (LI032-131----) 150m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 252: AP 5/2053) as a semicircular-shaped cropmark from SW-W-N-NE. Levelled monument is visible as a very faint oval-shaped cropmark (44m E-W; 41m N-S) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Although this cropmark is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020, a large oval-shaped cropmark (54m E-W; 47m N-S) is visible to N and partially overlying the area of this monument. This may represent two different levelled enclosures of different periods.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 252
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 November
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.