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Excavation - miscellaneous

Towlerton, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Towlerton, 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
Towlerton
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not shown
Coordinates
52.65149, -8.57870
SMR number
LI005-103----

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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

In flat undulating pasture 400m SW of the Groody River and 120m NW of Garryglass Roundabout. A layer of sterile blackish brown organic clay over the boulder clay was discovered in advance of road building (Hayes 2001). It was interpreted by the excavator as a ‘natural feature’ in ‘field 11’. No artefacts or dating material were retrieved from the fills and the function of the feature is unknown, it was interpreted as a thin deposit of naturally occurring soil.

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 23 July 2020

References

Hayes, A. 2001 Archaeological excavation of sites at Garraun, Garryglass and Towlerton, Co. Limerick found on the Limerick Southern Ring Road archaeological monitoring project. Unpublished report (Licences Nos. 00E0850, 00E0851 & 00E0854) submitted by Aegis Archaeology Ltd. on behalf of Limerick City Council to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.

Nearby in the register

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

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