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Linear earthwork

Newtown (Cloonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, 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 (Cloonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52599, -8.30335
SMR number
LI033-097----

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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)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In improved pasture 30m N of a watercourse marking the townland boundary with Rahard and 50m W of a second watercourse. Ring-barrow (LI033-167----) lies 200m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 83; AP 4/3624) as a cursus. Visible as a raised linear earthwork (L 75m; Wth 8m) running NE-SW with an extension at SE that curves from SE-S-W on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. The NW end on the monument is intersected by a paleochannel or old watercourse running NW-SE on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. The monument may represent a trackway connecting an old watercourse with an enclosure.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 83

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 13 April 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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