Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Morett, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Morett
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.07755, -7.20011
- SMR number
- LA008-056----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
New monument uncovered during excavation by Jonathan Dempsey under licence number 03E1367 in advance of the M7 Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme.
Morett 12 was an irregular pit which measured 1.1m E-W by 0.9m by 0.06m deep. Four fills were identified. The presence of charcoal in the fills and oxidation on the base of the pit would indicate that burning had occurred in situ (Bennett 2006, 295).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.