Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edgeworthstown
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69523, -7.61137
- SMR number
- LF015-083----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Archaeological testing and excavation (Excavation Licence no. 05E0762, 05E0762 ext.) undertaken in 2005 in advance of development works revealed a bowl furnace used for smelting metal and a number of associated linear features. A large linear feature which extended through the site contained large quantities of iron slag and a fragment of a glass bead (Carroll 2008, 252). Radiocarbon results are awaited to confirm the dating.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.