Hearth in Ballincolly, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture 400m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Garryderk North. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Hearth excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Goatisland-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/6/1 (Gowen 1986,179). According to Gowen; ‘The remains indicated that the hearth was likely to represent a once off burning rather than having been in continuous use’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI047-056

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