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Excavation - miscellaneous

Spittle (Coshlea By., Ballylanders ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Spittle, 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
Spittle (Coshlea By., Ballylanders ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.37769, -8.32143
SMR number
LI049-133----

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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

In pasture, 161m SW of townland boundary with Knockaunacurragha. A barrow (LI049-238----) lies 200m to the SE. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Site (site TR 2/12/1) identified after the removal of sod and topsoil on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (1988, 103). Excavated by Claire Walsh the results of which were summarised as following; ‘An arc of this feature 4.5n in length was exposed after removal of topsoil. It was 1.30m wide and survived to 20cm in depth with a gently curved profile. It had a heavily charcoal-flecked fill with lenses of ash. Excavation was limited to two small cuttings across the ditch as the site lay in a very wet area. No features were noted in the ‘interior’. There were no finds’ (Walsh 1987, 28).

See attached plan taken from M. 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 Spittle (BGE); Curvilinear Ditch. In C. Cotter (ed.), Excavations 1986: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 28, Site No. 59. Dublin. Organisation of Irish Archaeologists.

Nearby in the register

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

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