Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Kilbreckan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbreckan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83450, -8.93884
- SMR number
- CL034-238----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on level ground, formerly used as pasture, near the summit of Kilbreckan hill. Excavated in 2002 as part of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West project (Licence no. 02E1059). Four post-holes and two larger post-holes or pits relating to a possibly circular 19th-century structure were excavated. The function of the structure was not apparent but the artefacts discovered indicated domestic activity. (Hull 2004, 44)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 July 2016
References
Hull, G. 2004 Kibreckan (BGE 3/18/3). In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 44, No. 170. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.