Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Doonmoon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonmoon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42644, -8.44585
- SMR number
- LI040-250----
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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, 135m E of townland boundary with Elton, a hearth site (LI040-279----) was excavated 235m to the SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Low oval-shaped mound (LI040-108----) excavated by Christine Tarbett in 1986 prior to the construction of the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline, associated with some pits (LI040-108001-) and a possible kiln (LI040-108002-). The results of this excavation were summarised as follows; ‘Partial excavation of a charcoal layer (2/23/2)’ (Gowen 1988, 52-61; Tarbett 1987, 24).
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 3 July 2021
References
Tarbett, C. 1987 Doonmoon (BGE); Ring-barrow. In C. Cotter (ed.) Excavations 1986: Summary Accounts of Archaeological Excavations in Ireland, 24 No. 43. Wordwell, Dublin.
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.