What is recorded here

Burnt mound in Cootehall is a burnt mound in Cootehall, County Roscommon, Ireland. Archaeological testing uncovered burnt limestone and sandstone on the subsoil during ground preparation for a housing scheme. The site remains preserved in situ on a small D-shaped green measuring roughly thirty-five metres by ten metres. It sits fifteen metres northeast of a fulacht fia and eighty metres southwest of a rath.

An area of burnt limestone and sandstone was uncovered in archaeological testing (00E0393) on the subsoil in ground preparation for a housing scheme, and it is preserved in situ on a small D-shaped green (dims c. 35m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) c. 15m NE of fulacht fia (RO007-018002-) and c. 80m SW of rath (RO006-018----). (Gregory 2002, 292) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 27 May 2015

Burnt mound; date uncertain but likely Bronze Age. It represents a domestic or ritual activity site, common in the Irish landscape for cooking, heating, or ceremonial purposes.

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