Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocklong East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklong East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.43815, -8.40398
- SMR number
- LI041-007----
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
On reclaimed grassland on the S bank of the Camoge River, which marks townland boundary with Ballincarroona. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 24m) defined by a scarp with fosse and bank from NE-S-NW and an outer fosse with scarp from NE-S-SW. Outline of tree-covered monument (overall diam. c. 67m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Access road to water treatment plan transects earthwork at N on an E-W axis with buildings immediately to E visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 28 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.