What is recorded here
On a gentle SE-facing slope. Identified during monitoring (03E1374) for a road project in 2003. An area of burnt stone in a black matrix (dims c. 12m x c. 10m) with an area of larger stone paving at the N side, interpreted as a path. Prehistoric habitation (RO011-160003-) is c. 100m to the W and burnt mound (RO011-160005-) is c. 15m to the W. Burnt mound (RO011-160007-) is c. 13m to the NE. It was not excavated and is preserved in situ. (Gannon 2004, 6-7, site 9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A burnt mound; likely Bronze Age. It represents a domestic or ritual activity site, common across Ireland during the first millennium BCE.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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