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Hut site

Mooghaun South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Mooghaun South, County Clare, 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
Mooghaun South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.78228, -8.87764
SMR number
CL042-074024-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated inside the middle rampart in the SE quadrant of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-). A hut site, excavated in 1995 (licence no. 92E0093) as part of the North Munster Project of the Discovery Programme. This hut site was on a higher level but in the same location as structure A (CL042-074021-). It was indicated by an arc of 11 stones marking about a quarter of a circle c. 6m in diameter. A damaged saddle quern was incorporated into this arc. The destruction of the remainder of the house, including a possible line of outer walling, appears to have taken place during the construction of the earth and stone bank of the rampart. The structure was completely disturbed by a later intensive system of furrows. Animal bone from the house produced a radiocarbon date of 998-835 cal. BC (UB-4279). (Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 176-7, fig. 6.16)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 5 January 2016

References

Grogan, E. 2005 The North Munster Project, Vol. 1: The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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