Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91464, -8.44959
- SMR number
- CL029-009128-
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
Situated to the W of the doorway of St. Brigid’s church (CL029-009006-) and within the surrounding enclosure/graveyard (CL029-099007-). Excavation by de Paor in 1970-72 (E000180) revealed a copper worker’s furnace in the form of a pit in which an ovoid structure of clay had been constructed. This structure bore small splashes of copper and traces of intense heat. (de Paor 1997, 55-6; 2013, 33)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 November 2015
References
de Paor, L. 1997 Inis Cealtra: report on archaeological and other investigations of the monuments on the island. E000180. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
de Paor †, L. 2013 Inis Cealtra: Archaeological investigations of the monuments on the island. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 53, 27-78.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.