Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Iron Age
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
- 53.12515, -9.76577
- SMR number
- GA110-039032-
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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 structure was located towards the SE end of a bedrock hollow (see GA110-039031-) that was uncovered during the course of research excavations in the SE end of the middle enclosure of Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----). It was defined by a segment of walling (L 6.2m) that curved from E to S and was constructed of rough irregular blocks. The surviving remains suggested that it may originally have been circular or oval in plan (int. diam. c. 3.4m). There was no trace of a hearth but the associated artefact assemblage suggested that it was probably a house. Finds included two pounder/grinder stones, three blue glass beads, a limestone spindle-whorl. No definite date was obtained for the structure. However, the complete absence of pottery and the presence of the glass beads and spindle-whorl suggested that it dated to the Iron Age or later (Cotter vol. 1, 231-2; vol. 2, 275).
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.
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