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Earthwork

Knocklong West, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Knocklong West, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knocklong West
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.43661, -8.42319
SMR number
LI040-084----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture 20m E of a watercourse. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 22m) defined by a scarp with fosse. Westropp (1917-19, 175) listed this earthwork as site 4 and described the monument as follows; ‘The mote near the Elton road is 12 feet to 14 feet (3.6- 4.2m) high; it has a dry fosse 15 feet (4.6m) wide, and a sort of ledge, such as one finds in bell barrows, to the east round the foot of the mound. The flat summit is from 64 to 66 feet (19.5m-20m) across, the base about 90 feet (27.4m). Many hawthorns grow on its side. There is no outer ring’. Outline of heavily overgrown monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/09/2019 where it is intersected at S by field boundary running E-W.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 10 June 2021

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 343/1 on 05/01/2003.

References

Westropp, T.J. 1917-19 The Earthworks, Traditions, and the Gods of South-Eastern Co. Limerick, Especially from Knocklong to Temair Erann. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 34, 127-183.

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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