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Pit

Ballyroe Lower, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Pit, Ballyroe Lower, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyroe Lower
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.36614, -8.48037
SMR number
LI048-111001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The northernmost of the three pits [LI048-111001-, LI048-111002-, LI048-112----] is an irregular shaped pit exposed in both faces of the drain and lying 0.32m below the existing ground surface. The pit measures 1.30m northwest-southeast by 0.8m and 0.26m deep. It is filled with black, charcoal stained soil that has regular inclusions of burnt stone.

Compiled by: Melanie McQuade, Archaeologist, Forestry Service

Date of upload: 1 May 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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