What is recorded here

No. Of two or four sentences, roughly 45 to 110 words. Burnt mound in Kilmacredock Upper is a burnt mound: twelve by sixteen metres, with fourteen patches of burnt stone, ash and charcoal in pits, but no clear overall pattern. It lies in County Kildare, near the Celbridge to Leixlip road, in land that has been farmed, decorated and forgotten since people first lived there. The heat is gone, the purpose is blurred, and the mound keeps its own counsel.

Eighteen potential archaeological sites were found during monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the Celbridge Interchange, from April to December 2001 (Licence no. 01E0306). The scheme was approximately 4km in length and ran from Celbridge to Leixlip through gently undulating land with a mixture of arable, pasture and woodland. The southern part of the scheme runs through an area heavily influenced by 18th-century landscape design, with avenues, woodland and tree-lined field boundaries centred on the early 18th-century house at Castletown. This site (Site 13) was 11m by 16m. Fourteen areas of burnt stone or ash with charcoal in pits were identified at the monitoring stage. No overall pattern could be discerned. It was resolved under licence number 01E0960. (www.excavations.ie) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Burnt mound in Kilmacredock Upper is a Bronze Age ritual or industrial site, characterized by the presence of heat-shattered stones and fire-cracked rock. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early land use and possible ceremonial activity in the Celbridge area during the Bronze Age.

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