What is recorded here

Goatisland pipeline crews broke pasture soil in 1986 and exposed a hearth that had not belonged to any continuing home. Margaret Gowen read its remains as a once-off burning, perhaps a marker, offering or desperate light in the dark field. The gas line took the place apart and memory has little left to hold.

In pasture 400m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Garryderk North. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Hearth excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Goatisland-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/6/1 (Gowen 1986,179). According to Gowen; ‘The remains indicated that the hearth was likely to represent a once off burning rather than having been in continuous use’. 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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