What is recorded here

Fire burnished the base of Pit 3 until red clay gleamed beneath the soil. Eoin Grogan lifted three struck flint flakes from the fill, proving the dark hole had once hosted human hands. The gas pipeline tore open the pasture in 1988, exposing a temporary kitchen or workshop hidden since antiquity. What was cooked, cut or discarded there has vanished, leaving only a shallow scar and a sudden memory of heat.

In pasture, 130m W of townland boundary with Ballynatona. A Pit (LI049-124----) lies 4m to the NW. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. One (site TR/2/15/1) of three isolated pits identified after the removal of sod and topsoil on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (1988, 73, 109, 179). Excavated by Eoin Grogan the results of which were summarised as following; ‘Pit 3 [LI049-0120----] was situated over 100m from pits 1 [LI049-123----] and 2 [LI049-122----]. Pit 1 lay on the right-hand side of the trench, which was 2m wide. It had a maximum surviving width of 1.25m and was 75cm deep. The base had been fire-reddened to a depth of 3cm indicating intense in situ burning. Three struck, but not retouched, flint flakes were recovered from the fill’ (Grogan 1987, 28-29). See attached location map from Gowen (1988, 73). Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 13 October 2021

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