Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
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
- 52.47011, -8.47912
- SMR number
- LI040-268001-
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, 270m E of townland boundary with Baggotstown East. Two possible barrows (LI040-268002/003-) lie 28m and 40m respectively to the NW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible circular feature identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 129.01, AP 5/2073). Possible ditch-barrow visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff photograph labelled 129.01 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.