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Hearth

Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hearth, 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
53.12540, -9.76734
SMR number
GA110-039010-

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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 W half of the inner enclosure at Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----) two hearths (F218: GA110-039010-) and (F212: GA110-039011-) were revealed to the N of a pit (F234: GA110-039009-).
This hearth was defined by a thin spread of heavily charcoal-flecked soil (diam. c. 0.5m) and it was bound on its E side by a flat slab. Small fragments of burnt bone and scallop shell were recovered as well as an unidentifiable charred cereal grain. A scatter of stones to its E may have been the remains of a roughly cobbled surface. A thin spread of limpet shell lay to its NE. The second hearth (GA110-03911-) was revealed 3.4m to the NE of this one (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 319-20). Two more hearths (GA110-039012- and GA110-039013-) were identified to the S of the pit. All these features date to the Late Bronze Age (ibid., 316).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 22 June 2020

References

Cotter, C. 2012 The western stone forts project. Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd.

Nearby in the register

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

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