Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Ballyroe Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.36614, -8.48040
- SMR number
- LI048-111002-
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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
Located 0.9m to the southeast [of LI048-111001-] is a small pit/area of burning identified in the eastern section face of the drain. It comprises a spread of orange burnt soil overlying charcoal lying 0.26m below present ground level and measuring 0.47m in diameter and 0.13m deep.
Compiled by: Melanie McQuade, Archaeologist, Forestry Service
Date of upload: 1 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.