Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Bronze Age
Kilmurry North (rathdown By.), County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmurry North (rathdown By.)
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15854, -6.12174
- SMR number
- WI008-057----
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated in 2001 prior to the insertion of a Bord Gáis Éireann gas pipeline (Excavation Licence 01E0572). A double-ringed round house with an outer wall slot (diam. 11.5m) and internal ring of roofing posts (diam. 8.6m) was uncovered. There was an entrance facing SW and a centrally placed hearth. The only finds were some pieces of struck flint however a number of sherds of coarse ware, of probable middle or late Bronze Age date were found just to the N of the house. This house was part of a larger habitation site (WI008-057001-). (Ó Néill 2003, 424-5)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 23 January 2013
References
Ó Néill J. 2003 Kilmurry North. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 424-5 (No. 1368). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.