Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Post row - peatland
Newtown (pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (pubblebrien By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66719, -8.77978
- SMR number
- LI004-032009-
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 intertidal zone of River Shannon estuary, c. 125m to N of flood relief embankment. A Bronze Age house (LI004-032008-) is c. 48m to E. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Listed as ‘Carrigadirty Rock 2' by O’ Sullivan (2001, 306) who described the site as following; 'Wooden posts (with metal tool-marks), limestone slabs and cattle bone in fen peats, on sloping foreshore WNW of Carrigdirty Rock 1. Posts (8—10cm in diameter, 30cm long) set in an arc c. 5m long; posts and stone located in peats over an area 8m (N—S) by 5m (E-W). July 1994.'
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
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
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.