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
- 52.43750, -8.42282
- SMR number
- LI040-228----
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 pasture, an earthwork (LI040-084----) lies 75m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible enclosure by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 118; AP 5/2124). Monument visible as a raised D-shaped platform defined by a scrap with fosse from NE-E-S-W-NW, intersected at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Relic field boundary running N-S depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map clearly visible on Digital Globe and Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 118 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 3 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.