Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Cooloughter, County Wexford, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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 Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.