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Furnace

Knockcommane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Furnace, Knockcommane, 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
Knockcommane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.29813, -8.17926
SMR number
LI060-010002-

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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

Enclosure (LI060-010001-) excavated by Bernice Molloy, which is described as 'a segmented gully or ditch that bounded an area 15m in diameter' (McQuade; Molloy & Moriarty 2009, 150-3). Radiocarbon dates place it in the Iron Age (357-47 BC) and it is associated with a bowl furnace (LI060-010002-) .

References

McQuade, M. Molloy, M. & Moriarty, C. 2009 In the Shadow of the Galtees, archaeological excavations along the N8. NRA Scheme Monographs 4.

Nearby in the register

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

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