Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocklong, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklong
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.44210, -8.42560
- SMR number
- LI040-083----
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
Earthwork described in 1942-3 as following; 'This consists of a circular flat-topped platform, which is completely surrounded by a berm, and it looks as if the monument was built in two stages and deliberately given this form. It is surrounded by a wide fosse which has been cut into on the north side by a modern fence. The western side of the fosse has been removed by tillage operations in the field. The maximum height of the mound over the fosse-bottom is 8' [2.4m] and the overall diameter is 210' [64m] (O'Kelly 1942-3, 243). Monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 March 2020
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 343/4 on 05/01/2003. 370/2 on 10/05/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.