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Excavation - miscellaneous

Cloghacloka, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Cloghacloka, 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
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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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

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 Unpublished report (Licence No. 99E0364), submitted by Archaeological Development Services Ltd.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

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

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