Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Ballycahane Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahane Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56473, -8.66875
- SMR number
- LI022-251----
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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
In pasture, 50m SE of a watercourse and 275m S of the townland boundary with Shanaclogh. Enclosure (LI022-073----) 50m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as Site 2/38/1 and described as a hearth during groundworks for the Limerick Gas Pipeline in 1986 (Gowen 1988, 180). No surface remains visible.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 August 2020
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.