Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Rossbrien, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossbrien
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63288, -8.62928
- SMR number
- LI013-215----
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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
Identified as Site 12 by Damien Finn during archaeological monitoring (License 98E0506) associated with the N20/N21 Limerick Bypass (Finn 1999). The site is located on marshy ground 35m E of the Ballynaclough River. Archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping ‘revealed a low mound of burnt stones and charcoal. The mound had a maximum height of 0.5m and a maximum diameter of 10m N-S and 12m E-W’ (Finn 1999, 90). Following consultation with Dúchas it was decided that the area could be covered in a geotextile material, sand and earth, as it lay in an outside the main construction works and so would not be affected by the development (www.excavations.ie 1999; Finn 2000, 155-6).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 29 June 2020
References
Finn, D. 2000 N20/N21 Road Improvement Scheme Adare/Annacotty Contract 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 155-6. Bray. Wordwell.
Finn, D. 1999 Report on the archaeological monitoring of ground works for Contract No. 2 Adare to Limerick on the N20/N21Road Improvement Scheme. Unpublished report (Licence No. 98E0506), submitted by Archaeological Development Services Ltd. on behalf of Limerick County Council to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.
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