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
- 52.43831, -8.43062
- SMR number
- LI040-227----
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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small semi-circular shaped cropmark transected at S by field boundary running E-W by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 117; AP 5/2124). Slight trace of partial cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 117 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 3 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.