Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - unclassified togher
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
- 52.66820, -8.77167
- SMR number
- LI004-032012-
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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. 60m to N of flood relief embankment. Enclosure (LI004-032007-) is c. 32m to WNW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Listed as ‘Carrigadirty Rock 20 and 21' by O’ Sullivan (2001, 309) who described the site as following; 'Large, tangentially cleft oak plank, oriented N—S, 3.4m long, 46—54cm wide, in peats on mid-foreshore. Edges of plank irregular, with notches and protrusions. Large, cleft oak plank, oriented E—W, 5.6m long, 76cm wide, 5.5cm thick. Set in fen peats, 2m S of the edge of the intertidal peat shelf. Tangentially cleft from a massive, knotty oak trunk. The plank was worked to a blunt oblique point at its W end, cut directly across at its E end. Side edges quite thin and 'feather-edged', owing to splitting of trunk.'
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
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Post row - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.