Burnt mound in Ballyhale

A burnt mound was revealed during test-trenching in advance of a proposed residential construction (Excavation licence no. 07E0524). The mound (c. 16.2m x 13.4m) comprised frequent to abundant small to medium pieces of rounded sandstone and large quantities of angular burnt stone and some charcoal flecks. Plough furrows had spread the material N and S (the dimensions cited include this spreading). A Man-made underground passage (KK031-070---) lies c. 145m to the N. (Henry 2007; Henry 2010, 232, no. 874) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 November 2013

Burnt mound, Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. The site provides evidence of domestic or ritual activity involving the heating of stones, typical of fulacht fiadh sites in Ireland.