Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Knocklong West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklong West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42767, -8.43368
- SMR number
- LI040-145002-
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 reclaimed wet pasture, 70m of townland boundary with Doonmoon, a possible barrow (LI040-145001-) lies 10m to the N. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 72) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as circular cropmark (diam. c. 8m) intersected at E by a post-1700 field boundary running roughly N-S on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint trace of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 4 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.