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Hearth

Rathmore South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hearth, Rathmore South, 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
Rathmore South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51133, -8.62330
SMR number
LI031-035----

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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

In pasture, 35m NW of the Camoge River which also marks a townland boundary with Meanus. Enclosure (LI031-063----) lies 225m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Fully excavated by Margaret Gowen in 1986 in advance of the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline and described as a hearth (Site 2/33/1; Bord Gais Eireann map 07/25) (Gowen 1988, 180). Monument is not visible on modern aerial orthophotos including Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 3 November 2020

References

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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