Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Furnace
Lislackagh, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lislackagh
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not inidicated
- Coordinates
- 53.92353, -8.97992
- SMR number
- MA071-042004-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Located in the S half of a rath (MA071-042----). An iron-smelting pit-furnace was discovered and fully excavated in 1992-3 during excavation (92E0152) of the rath in advance of the construction of the N5 Swinford by-pass. Associated finds included furnace bottoms and smelted, unforged, iron. (Walsh 1995, 7-8).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 July 2021
References
Walsh, G. 1995a Iron Age settlement in Co. Mayo. Archaeology Ireland 9 (2), 7–8.
Nearby in the register
- House - Iron Ageunder 1 mi
- House - Iron Ageunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - Iron Ageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.