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
- 52.40300, -8.35564
- SMR number
- LI049-054----
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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, immediately W of townland boundary with Duntryleague. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Site described as rectangular earthworks identified on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, No. 2582, Site no. 049221) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. These earthworks identified on the gas pipeline aerial images are the remains of the building with enclosing boundary depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.