Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Newtown (Cloonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Cloonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52851, -8.31412
- SMR number
- LI033-155----
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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 reclaimed pasture 500m W of Newtown House. Enclosure (LI033-041----) lies 185m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. 25m N-S; 19m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.15m) with possible fosse (Wth 10.95m; D 0.4m) that may represent a drainage channel. Monument is visible as a cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 22 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.