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Post row - peatland

Newtown (Pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Post row - peatland, 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
52.66665, -8.78270
SMR number
LI004-032011-

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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. 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.'

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Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 19 June 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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