Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Garrynderk North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynderk North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.37759, -8.65209
- SMR number
- LI047-062002-
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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 200m E of the townland boundary with Ballynagoul and 10m W of a stream. Excavated fulacht fiadh (LI047-062001-) lies 5m to NE, ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 100m to SE and moated site (LI047- 064---) 150m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Hearth excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/5/5 (Gowen 1988, 179). According to Gowen; ‘The remains may represent a relatively modern hearth. There were no finds and no inclusions in the pit fill’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 August 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.