Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
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
- 52.39882, -8.36248
- SMR number
- LI049-236001-
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 pasture, 85m NE of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Knockaunavlyman. Barrow (LI049-236002--) lies 15m to the E and barrow (LI049-236003-) 25m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Possible barrow listed as ‘Newtown 4’ by Grogan (1989, 244). Faint outline visible on OSi orthoimage taken between 2005-12. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.