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Habitation site

Newtown (Pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Habitation site, Newtown, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Pubblebrien By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.66826, -8.77211
SMR number
LI004-032007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 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

On intertidal zone of River Shannon estuary, c. 75m to N of flood relief embankment. Togher (LI004-032012-) is c. 32m to ESE. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Listed as ‘Carrigadirty Rock 5' by O’ Sullivan (2001, 307) who described the site as following; 'Possible Neolithic wetland occupation site represented by a scatter of both stratified and unstratified finds on the lower foreshore. The finds are emerging from organicrich, reedy, grey estuarine clays over an area 30m (E—W) by 2m (N-S). They include worked and charred roundwood, charcoal, fragments of basketry, a portion of human skull and clavicle, cattle and swan bone, a stone axe, chert flakes, a possible hammerstone and a few fragments of charred bone and hazelnuts. The human skull has been radiocarbon-dated to 4710 ± 60 BP (3634-3370 cal. BC; Beta-102086). The basket has provided two similar radiocarbon dates of 4820 ± 50 BP (3702—3386 cal. BC; GrA-6520) and 4820 ± 50 BP (3702-3386 cal. BC; Beta-102087). September 1998.'.

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Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 19 June 2020

References

O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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