Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Ballincolly, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincolly
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.37035, -8.66390
- SMR number
- LI047-056----
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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 400m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Garryderk North. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Hearth excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Goatisland-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/6/1 (Gowen 1986,179). According to Gowen; ‘The remains indicated that the hearth was likely to represent a once off burning rather than having been in continuous use’. 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.