Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Stradbally North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stradbally North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71109, -8.50503
- SMR number
- LI001-008002-
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
In burial ground (LI001-008001-), approx. 120m S of the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. According to local information, the burials are understood to form part of a famine plot. Trial trenching of the burial ground revealed a thin deposit of charcoal and iron slag under a thick layer of redeposited boulder clay (Hodkinson 1991). No dating evidence was available in the deposit, however it was deemed to pre-date the burials (ibid). The site documentation and a sample of the slag are housed in the Limerick Museum. Site now appears to have been developed as a small housing estate that is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography taken 2011-13.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 18 June 2020
References
Hodkinson, B. 1991 Stradbally North, burial ground. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1990: Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland. Wordwell Ltd, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.