Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Iron Age
Coolbeg, County Wicklow, Ireland
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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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
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
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.