Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Tankardstown South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardstown South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40256, -8.61613
- SMR number
- LI047-010----
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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 pasture 190m S of the townland boundary with Tankardstown North. Tankardstown Church (LI047-011001-) and graveyard (LI047-011002-) lie 115m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Pit excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Goatisland-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/4/1 (Gowen 1988, 179). According to Gowen; ‘A shallow pit measuring 0.66m x 0.62m x 0.12m deep, the remains are probably those of a hearth site’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 30 August 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.