Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Newtown (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43626, -8.47734
- SMR number
- LI040-077002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In wet unimproved pasture 25 N of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Adamstown. One of four possible barrows (LI040-077002/005-) located on the N bank of the river. Identified as a possible barrow (Site No. 040198) during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2559) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi otrthoimages. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.