Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Mountblakeney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountblakeney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38804, -8.63978
- SMR number
- LI047-038----
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. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Habitation site excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed as site 1/5/3 (Gowen 1988, 179). Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 September 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.