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Burnt mound in Moyode

Burnt mound

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Burnt mound in Moyode is a fulacht fiadh, dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000–1200 BCE). These features are significant as they provide insight into prehistoric cooking, feasting, or ritual practices in the landscape.

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On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland, overlooking a turlough to the SE. This low roughly circular grassed-over mound of burnt stone (diam. 4m; H 0.4m) is cut across from NW to SE by a livestock trackway. A field wall overlies it at N. There is a fulacht fia (GA096-138----) c. 55m to the SE. (Cody 1989, 161, no. 20) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 November 2019
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