What is recorded here

Mound in Curragh is a small, low earthwork in County Kildare, measuring about seven metres across and half a metre high. O'Riordain excavated it completely in 1950 and found no burial, only a flint scraper and two chips hidden among brown soil packed with charcoal. The charcoal suggests people fired nearby or buried ashes within the mound, turning an ordinary ridge into a marker of lost human activity.

A small, low mound (diam. c. 7m; H. 0.5m), fully excavated by O'Riordáin (1950, 254: Site No. 3). Although composed mainly of a brown soil, the excavator remarked on the quantity of charcoal incorporated in the mound material at different levels. No burial was discovered and the finds included a flint scraper and two flint chips. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

A Neolithic funerary mound; dates to the early or middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its construction and the presence of charcoal suggest ritual or funerary practices associated with early agricultural communities in the region.

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