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House - Iron Age

Coolbeg, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - Iron Age, Coolbeg, County Wicklow, 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
Coolbeg
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.95878, -6.11124
SMR number
WI031-101----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

Monitoring of top soil stripping in 2008 (Excavation Licence 07E1151) uncovered a 'double-ring round house (c. 8.5m diameter) of very shallow concentric post-holes, with a central hearth and a porch/vestibule to the south-east' (Frazer 2011, 378).

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 19 December 2012

References

Frazer, W. 2011 Phase 2, Ballynagran Landfill, Coolbeg. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 378 (No. 1309). Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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