Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Newtown (Clonbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Clonbeg Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.41923, -8.17956
- SMR number
- TS074-003----
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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
In level ground which falls away to the S beyond the S edge of the monument, on the gentle slopes at the base of Slievenamuck, in pasture. Field boundaries runs NE-SW up to the N angle, NW-SE up to the S angle and NW-SE and NE-SW up to the W angle. A moated site (diam. 38.8m NE-SW) defined by a round-topped bank (Wth 3.9-5.1m; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 1.1-1.5m) and an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.56-0.68m). The NE bank is largely reduced to scarp and has a cattle gap near the N end. The interior is densely overgrown with brambles and otherwise waterlogged and badly cattle poached. Deciduous trees are growing on the bank, the outer face of which has been truncated by cattle. There is a small pond at the NW angle outside the bank, in the adjacent field.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.