Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Latoon South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Latoon South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78908, -8.92125
- SMR number
- CL042-189----
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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
Monitoring in advance of the development of the N18/N19 Road Scheme (Licence no. 98E0338) revealed five areas of activity. The main concentration consisted mainly of a series of post-holes and pits. A cobbled area overlay a small drainage channel and was subsequently covered by midden material consisting of stone, clay and animal bone. Finds included bone cylinders, fragments of a decorated bone comb, sherds of medieval pottery, bronze pins, fragments of rotary querns and a fragment of a possible decorated bone mount with rivet-hole. A large amount of animal bone was recovered from the site, a selection of which shows evidence of butchering. (Grant 2000, 18)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 February 2015
References
Grant, C. 2000 Latoon South, Area 1. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 18, no. 57. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.