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
- 53.12538, -9.76733
- SMR number
- GA110-039025-
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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
This hearth was uncovered during the course of excavations in Cutting 1 in the inner enclosure of Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----). The surviving remains consisted of a shattered base slab and two low side stones (0.47m by 0.45m). No hearth residues were evident. It is possible that the hearth was associated with Structure 10 (GA110-039024-), as the suggested ground plan of the latter feature would have incorporated it in its E sector (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 350, Fig. 7.127, 355).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 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
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.