Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Rincullia, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rincullia
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.59294, -9.05572
- SMR number
- LI010-141003-
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
A limestone trackway excavated by Emer Dennehy (02E0670) and described as 'a trackway composed of two courses of fractured limestone bedrock, measuring 10m north-south by 15.5m. It served to connect the roasting pits of Area B to the debris mound of Area A. The need for the construction of the trackway arose during Phase 2 of the history of the site. It provided a secure, level footing to combat adverse weather conditions, the encroachment of peat and the seasonal flooding from the nearby stream.' 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
- Pitunder 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.