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Fulacht fia

Newtown (Coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Newtown, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newtown (Coshlea By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not shown
Latest-edition OS map
Not shown
Coordinates
52.39956, -8.36434
SMR number
LI049-272----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the E bank of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Knockaunavlyman and c. 40m S of a forestry plantation. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified in 2006 by archaeologist Enda Mahony in the course of an archaeological assessment in advance of afforestation, described as an; ‘horse-shoe or U-Shaped mound with an opening (1.5m in width) to the west. The mound measures 4m in external diameter and rises to a height of between 0.5 and 0.75m above the surrounding ground level’. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and location map provided by Emmet Byrnes

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 5 October 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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