Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Rincullia, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rincullia
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.59292, -9.05568
- SMR number
- LI010-141002-
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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
Pits excavated by Emer Dennehy (02E0670) and described as 'a complex of six roasting pits excavated into the underlying gravel. The pits were subcircular, averaging 1.5m north-south by 1.2m, with an average depth of 0.4m. The roasting pits would not have retained water and were filled with burnt sandstone and limestone in a charcoal-enriched matrix.' This description is posted on the web at the following internet address (accessed 2 August 2012): http://www.excavations.ie/
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of Upload: 2 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.