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
- 52.66665, -8.78270
- SMR number
- LI004-032011-
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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. 80m to E of Carrigadirty Rock and c. 160m to N of flood relief embankment. A pit (LI004-032010-) lies c. 48m to E. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Listed as ‘Carrigadirty Rock 4' by O’ Sullivan (2001, 307) who described the site as following; 'Two roundwood posts and one cleft post in fen peats on the sloping E bank of modern mudflat creek, S of Carrigdirty Rock. Two posts lay horizontally in peat and a single post was driven at an angle into peats. This post was cleft on four surfaces to a sharpened point. July 1996.'
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 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.