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
- 52.40626, -8.35997
- SMR number
- LI049-048003-
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, located within a field system (LI049-048001-), in N quadrant of a group of monuments (LI049-048001/004-). Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Earthwork identified on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Site 317; Strip Map 3 Site 3/32) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a rectangular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 21m N-S; 35m E-W) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint trace of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 10/10/2006.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.