Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Knocklong West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklong West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44036, -8.42520
- SMR number
- LI040-082003-
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 reclaimed pasture immediately N of earthwork (LI040-082002-). Not depicted on the OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on aerial photograph (ASIAP (344) 0, 3) taken 05/01/2004. Faint outline of possible ditch-barrow (diam. c. 12m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/09/2019.
See attached ASIAP aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 14 June 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/0 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.