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Metalworking site

Tonybaun, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, Tonybaun, County Mayo, 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
Tonybaun
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.05505, -9.14929
SMR number
MA039-107002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In lowlying flat ground bordering the W bank of the River Moy. There was a burial ground (MA039-107003-), later used as a children's burial ground (MA039-107----), located c. 40m to S.
This metal-working site was discovered during archaeological testing (03E0139) in advance of a road construction project on the N26; it was subsequently fully excavated (Nolan 2008, 89-101). A cluster of features were uncovered providing evidence of ore extraction and smelting, including three furnace pits with fills of charcoal-rich soil mixed with iron slag, and associated spreads of burnt material and slag. Radiocarbon dates indicated that the metal-working site was in use in the Iron Age: One of the furnace pits, with stone-lined sides and a flat slab forming the base, dated to the period 477-210 BC, and another pit produced dates in the range 166 BC-25 AD (Nolan 2008, 99).

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 14 April 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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