Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Newtown (Shea), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Shea)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54544, -7.30307
- SMR number
- KK027-013----
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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)
- 1869 · 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A mound at this location is mentioned in OPW Correspondence Files (1956). Possibly located in a former strip of woodland which ran immediately S of the Newtown to Kells road. There is nothing indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or the subsequent 1948 revision.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Boundary stoneunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.