Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 52.66650, -8.78200
- SMR number
- LI004-032010-
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. 120m to E of Carrigadirty Rock and c. 120m to N of flood relief embankment. A post row (peatland) (LI004-032011-) lies c. 48m to W. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Listed as ‘Carrigadirty Rock 3' by O’ Sullivan (2001, 306) who described the site as following; 'Shallow pit in fen peat, rich in woody fragments and reeds, on level foreshore 15m N of saltmarsh cliff, to SE of Carrigdirty Rock 4. Oval in plan, 90cm long (NW—SE), 5()cm wide and 15cm in surviving depth. Erosion has removed its upper surface. Filled with a gritty, shell-rich, grey clay deposit and disarticulated bones of red deer and pinkfooted goose. Pig bone and deer antler (Carrigdirty Rock 9) also found on adjacent forehsore.'
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
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.