Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Ballynatona (coshlea By., Duntryleague Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynatona (coshlea By., Duntryleague Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38657, -8.32985
- SMR number
- LI049-127----
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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, 95m NE of townland boundary with Spittle a ringfort (LI049-126----) lies 125m to the SW. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Isolated pit (site TR/2/13/1) identified after the removal of sod and topsoil on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 103-105). Excavated by Claire Walsh the results of which were summarised as following; ‘A truncated pit 90cm x 1.4m and 20cm deep, found beneath 50cm of topsoil. The fill contained unidentifiable cremated bone, twelve sherds of coarse pottery and six fragments of struck flint and chert’ (Walsh 1987, 23).
See attached location map from Gowen (1988, 103).
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 October 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Walsh, C. 1987 Ballynatona (BGE); Bronze Age Pit. In C. Cotter (ed.), Excavations 1986: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland 23, Site No. 40. Wordwell. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.