Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockainy West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockainy West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.46808, -8.48108
- SMR number
- LI040-267----
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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
Identified on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 40, Bruff 130: AP 5/2073). Described by Doody (2008, 137) as a 'oval ditched enclosure, c. 30m N-S x 27m E-W, interior possibly a raised platform; disturbance to ditch (c. 5m wide) on the W side. There is evidence for a bank on E and S sides'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 349/17 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Doody, M 2008 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.