Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Mitchelstowndown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41028, -8.38122
- SMR number
- LI049-027003-
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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
In reclaimed pasture, in the NW quadrant of a group of monuments (LI049-027001/009-). Not marked on the OSi 6-inch maps. Hearth and post-holes (site TR/2/19/2) excavated by Margaret Gowen in 1986 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (1988, 180). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.