Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Rathjordan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathjordan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53297, -8.47445
- SMR number
- LI023-096----
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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 improved, level pasture, in flood plain of the Camoge River. Low, oval mound (21m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) defined by remains of levelled bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.2m) NNE-NE and scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.35m) NE-NNE. Interior uneven on surface with shallow circular depression (c. diam. 5m; Dth 0.15m) at SW. Well and pump house to ENE and wide land-drain to S. This monument was excavated by Ó Riordain (1946-7) in 1946; he found 'an artificial island made by laying down a stone layer over a foundation of peat, brushwood and timbers ... the foundation layer being about eleven meters and the stone layer eight meters in diameter ... a fragment of Beaker pottery found in a hearth shows the date of the crannóg cannot be later than Early Bronze Age times' (Ó Riordain 1965, 51).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 19 November 2013
References
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1946-7 Excavation of a small crannóg at Rathjordan, Co. Limerick, North Munster Antiquarian Journal 5, 68-77.
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1965 Antiquities of the Irish countryside. London. Methuen & Co Ltd.
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