Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Knocklong East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklong East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42429, -8.41413
- SMR number
- LI040-137001-
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 pasture, associated with rectangular enclosure (LI040-137001-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as linear cropmarks on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2571, Strip map 4, site 4/40) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Outline of Knocklong Race Course indicated on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, some of the earthworks visible on gas pipeline aerial images may be related to the race course.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.