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Excavation - miscellaneous

Coonagh West, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Coonagh West, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coonagh West
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.67072, -8.70580
SMR number
LI004-033----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On intertidal zone of the River Shannon estuary, at the mouth of Meelick Creek and c. 48m SE of a navigation buoy on the Shannon navigation channel. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Listed as ‘Meelick Rocks 2’ by O’ Sullivan (2001, 311) who described the site as following; 'Findspot of stone axe, recovered from gravels on a peat and clay ridge at the LWM [Low Water Mark], 48m due SE of the modern navigation beacon. Cattle, pig and dog bone recovered from the peat in the immediate vicinity of the findspot, with recumbent tree trunks and bark located 1m to the SW. Radiocarbon sample from tree bark in peat 1m E of the findspot dated to 6240 ± 25 BP (5299-5078 cal. BC; GrN-21929). September 1995'.

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Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 19 June 2020

References

O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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