What is recorded here

Goats chewed the edge of the excavation while Margaret watched. The camera saw only a smooth red disc in white grass, yet the jar knew the shape of the pit below. She dropped a marble through the hole and listened for the click of ancient stone. The goat headbutted her ankle, eager to join the game of remembering.

In pasture 190m S of the townland boundary with Tankardstown North. Tankardstown Church (LI047-011001-) and graveyard (LI047-011002-) lie 115m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Pit excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Goatisland-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/4/1 (Gowen 1988, 179). According to Gowen; ‘A shallow pit measuring 0.66m x 0.62m x 0.12m deep, the remains are probably those of a hearth site’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 August 2021

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