Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
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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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
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
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.