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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42871, -8.41459
- SMR number
- LI040-148----
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 wet pasture. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 74) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as a sub-rectangular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 25m N-S x 15m E-W) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. A relic watercourse running NE-SW intersects the cropmark at W.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 4 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.