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Excavation - miscellaneous

Cooloughter, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Cooloughter, County Wexford, 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
Cooloughter
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24329, -6.50037
SMR number
WX047-131001-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight bluff with lower ground c. 50m to the W and c. 100m to the S. Archaeological testing (07E0246) produced evidence of a large charcoal-filled pit (dims 2.3m x 1m) of likely prehistoric date with a ditch (Wth c. 1.7m; D 0.8m) 12m to the N and three smaller pits (diam. 0.6-0.7m) c. 20m to the E. The features are located c. 170m NW of ring-ditch (WX047-131----). (McLoughlin 2007, 5)

References

McLoughlin, C. 2007 Archaeological testing report. Cooloughter. Licence: 07E0246. Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

McLoughlin, C. 2010 Cooloughter. Prehistoric. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 545, No. 1950. Dublin. 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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