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Habitation site

Rockbarton (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Habitation site, Rockbarton, 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
Rockbarton (Coshma By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50609, -8.55652
SMR number
LI031-080001-

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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 grassland on former bogland of Rockbarton Demesne. The westernmost of three habitation sites (LI031-080002/0003----) discovered in 1941 during turf cutting at Rockbarton bog (Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin 1942, 255). According to Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin the site was similar to nearby habitation site (LI031-080002-), however no burnt stone and ‘much of the central area had been cut away; its original extent was estimated at 20 sq m. Pieces of pottery and scraps of flint were found” (ibid. 256, 258). The monument is not visible on aerial photography.

See attached plan of the site marked Site III by Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 23 March 2021

References

Mitchell, G.F and Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1942-3 Early bronze age pottery from Rockbarton Bog, Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 48, 255-272.

Nearby in the register

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

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