Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Carrigeen (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48150, -8.58786
- SMR number
- LI031-115----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 reclaimed pasture, 15m NW of Morningstar River that marks townland boundary with Camas South and 140m SE of a ring-barrow (LI031-114----). Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Site (No. 2/31/1) recorded as a ‘brushwood layer’ and excavated during work associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 180). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and Google Earth orthoimages. Site has been fully excavated.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 April 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.