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
- 52.47323, -8.47778
- SMR number
- LI032-238----
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 NE-facing slope, in improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, in the valley of the Camoge River, which is 775m to E. Enclosure (LI032-137----) located 285m to NNW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 259: AP 5/2073) as a circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a very faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 21m) defined by a narrow fosse, which is only readily visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. A wet patch of ground is visible approx. 25m to E of this monument, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 259
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 304/23 taken on 13/09/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.