Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Rockbarton (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockbarton (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50628, -8.55549
- SMR number
- LI031-080002-
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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 grassland on former bogland of Rockbarton Demesne. The central one of three habitation sites (LI031-080001/0002-) discovered in 1941 during turf cutting at Rockbarton bog (Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin 1942, 23-24). Described by Mitchell and Ó Ríordáin as ‘an area of 12 sq. m. and was centred on a pillow-shaped mass of burnt stones about 100cm. in diameter and 25 cm. thick’ with finds of pottery, a flint scraper and unidentified burnt bone fragment (ibid.). The monument is not visible on aerial photography.
See attached plan of the site marked Site II 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
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.