Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Mooghaun South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooghaun South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78274, -8.87799
- SMR number
- CL042-074027-
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 in the SE quadrant of the inner enclosure of Mooghaun hillfort (CL042-074001-). Excavation by the North Munster Project of the Discovery Programme in 1993 (92E0093) revealed extensive industrial activity on the hill summit. The debris indicated iron and bronze smelting, bronze casting and the manufacture of querns. A late Iron Age radiocarbon date of c. 47 BC – 113 cal AD (UB-4314) was determined. (Grogan 2005, vol. 1, 131, 137)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 6 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.