Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knocklong West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklong West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.42846, -8.42308
- SMR number
- LI040-085----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 immediately N of a watercourse and 350m S of a railway track. Knocklong fort (LI040-087----) lies 120m to SE. No indicated in 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a raised roughly circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 17m N-S x 15m E-W) defined by a scarp on OSi 25-inch map. Outline of earthwork visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Faint trace of a roughly circular-shaped cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/09/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 14 June 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.