Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockainy West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockainy West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47038, -8.48162
- SMR number
- LI040-191----
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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 pasture, 120m E of townland boundary with Baggotstown East, possible ditch-barrows (LI040-190/240/301/302----) lie 100m to the NW. Possible enclosure identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58; AP 5/2072). Faint trace of raised D-shaped area visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Monument visible as D-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 18m) intersected at N by a drain running NE-SW and at S by a linear cropmark or drainge channel running roughly E-W on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. Uncertain antiquity, earthwork may be related to post-1700 land reclamation works.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 58 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.