Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Newtown (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40830, -8.36422
- SMR number
- LI049-046----
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 pasture, 20m E of townland boundary with Raheen. Enclosure (LI049-045----) lies 95m to the N. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Earthwork identified as a circular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2580) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photographs and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 19 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.