Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Downshill, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Downshill
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13036, -6.11963
- SMR number
- WI013-068----
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Shown on 4 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 01E0509). A spread of burnt stone and charcoal (3.3m x 2.2m; max. D 0.48m) was uncovered in a circular flat based depression (1.35m x 0.86m) which overlay boulder clay. A single post-hole (diam. 0.15m; D 0.25m) was identified beneath the mound and within the depression. (Ó Néill 2003, 414-5)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 23 January 2013
References
Ó Néill J. 2003 Downshill, Calary Lower. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 414-5 (No. 1347). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.