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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
Partially hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.43264, -8.42117
SMR number
LI040-143----

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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 pasture. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform defined by wide foss. Partially destroyed monument shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 40m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) bisected by the Cork-Dublin railway line running NE-SW. Partial outline of monument visible as a D-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 30m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE) to the S of the Cork-Dublin railway line on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. No surface remains visible of earthwork to N of railway line. Curving cropmark of levelled earthwork to S of railway line visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 2 June 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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