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Excavation - miscellaneous

Carrigeen (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Carrigeen, 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
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----

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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 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

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

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