Burnt pit in Killeisk, County Tipperary

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What is recorded here

To the NE of the start (or end) of the droveway is a group of pits over an area 10m x 7.5m. Many of the pits contained 'burnt stone and charcoal' style fills. No reports of slag but this would be a good area for burnt stone activities - perhaps an EM style Burnt Mound for cattle processing as at Balriggan, Dundalk. Perhaps external 'campsite' activities associated with drovers. However, this could also be the remains of a Bronze Age burnt mound.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN021-107002

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