Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Cloghacloka, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghacloka
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60325, -8.68999
- SMR number
- LI013-212----
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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
Site described as two hearths that were excavated by Margaret Gowen in 1986 in advance of the gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 180).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 29 June 2020
References
Deevy, M. C. 2000 Cloghacloka. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 163-4. Bray. Wordwell.
Deevy, M. 1999 Excavation at Cloghacloka Td., Co. Limerick. Unpublished report (Licence No. 99E0364), submitted by Archaeological Development Services Ltd. on behalf of Limerick County Council to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.