County: Tyrone Site name: CARNNENNY td
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Mr. Chris Lynn, Ancient Monuments Branch/Min. of Finance
Site type: Barrow - ring-barrow
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 635344m, N 886693m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.727058, -7.451314
During July and August 1970 excavation was undertaken prior to the destruction, for agricultural purposes, of a site which appeared to be a ruined cashel. Excavation showed that the structure was a ring-cairn with a bank built of dumped boulders 25m diameter and c. 0.5m high. Within the area thus enclosed a low cairn partly overlay 13 small pits which averaged 0.3m in depth and contained charcoal and fragments of burnt bone. To the north the bank overlay an area of intense burning with many large pieces of burnt human bone. There were no grave-goods as such; but a polished stone axe, two stone beads or buttons, three flint scrapers, one arrowhead, and five sherds from a coarse bucket-shaped pot, all appeared to have been incorporated into the cairn during its construction. The site is perhaps equated best with EBA ring barrows normally built of earth. In this case the very rocky nature of the subsoil would have precluded the digging of a ring-ditch.
