Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
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
- 52.47889, -8.48657
- SMR number
- LI032-332----
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
In 2004 this barrow was described as following; 'This circular mound, 15m in diameter and enclosed by a shallow, 1m-wide ditch, is located in a depression encircled by a 3m-wide counterscarp bank' (Condit and Coyne 2004).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 07 August 2019
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 303/26 date taken 13/09/2002.
References
Condit, T. and Coyne, F. 2004 Knockainy Hill - a ceremonial landscape in County Limerick. Archaeology Ireland. Heritage Guide No. 27.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.