Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Mooreabbey Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooreabbey Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11394, -7.07593
- SMR number
- KD026-027----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
As part of the M7 Heath–Mayfield Motorway Scheme, a road bridge was to be constructed crossing the River Barrow 3km SSW of Monasterevin. During archaeological testing (Licence No. 03E0691 www.excavations.ie Accessed 28 August 2012) a spread of burning, was identified under spoil heaps of material dredged from the river. During later monitoring work (Excavation licence no. 03E0623) a hearth (0.9m E-W; 0.52m N-S; D 0.80m) was identified, consisting of a spread of ash and patches of oxidised clay. A sub-oval post-hole (0.28m E-W; 0.2m N-S; D 0.14m) was cut into the hearth and was filled by a mid-brown clayey silt with lenses of oxidised clay. The N end of the hearth had been cut by a modern drain. A spread of heavily oxidised clay and charcoal (1.7m N-S; 0.6m E-W; D 0.12m) was found 69m E of the hearth and contained fragments of a slag-like material. Metal detecting and monitoring of the remainder of the dredged spoil within the road-line was undertaken, but no additional sites or artefacts of archaeological significance were identified.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 29 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.