TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Souterrain

Newtown North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Newtown North, 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 North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.53306, -8.29813
SMR number
LI024-302----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

On an elevated area of an E-facing slope, in pasture, with excellent views from N-E-S-SW and 200m NW of a townland boundary with Farranafina. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Within ringfort (LI024-079----) abutting bank at WNW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a possible collapse into a souterrain which is visible as a sod covered, sunken oval-shaped area (12m WNW-ESE; 8m NNE-SSW) defined by a broad bank (Wth 8.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.2m) at SSW and a narrower bank (Wth 6.45m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.2m) at NNE. Monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 15 October 2020

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Souterrain in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map