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Excavation - miscellaneous

Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, 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
Cill Mhuirbhigh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.12538, -9.76734
SMR number
GA110-039009-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

During the course of research excavations in the inner enclosure at Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----) this rectangular rock-cut pit (D 0.25m) was revealed. It had vertical sides and a flat floor. A narrow funnel-like extension (L 1.3m) ran off it at SE. The charcoal-flecked clay fill contained sheep, cattle and pig bones. Finds included a small amount of abraded cooking ware, a bone point, one broken and one complete bone needle, a fragment of a clay mould and a piece of pumice. A sample of animal bone yielded a radiocarbon date of 1370-1120 cal. BC. The pit was partly sealed by the remains of possible wall foundations that extended off it at W and ran under the foundations of the inner enclosure wall (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 317-18). A number of hearths were uncovered in its vicinity - see GA110-039010- to GA110-039013-.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 22 June 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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