Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 52.40578, -8.36071
- SMR number
- LI049-048001-
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, linear cropmarks of a possible field system associated with a group of monuments (LI049-048002/004-). Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Field system identified as a series of linear cropmarks running E-W may be the remains of a field system visible on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Site 3/32) taken 03/11/1984. Linear cropmarks visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE location map and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 21 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.