County: Fermanagh Site name: KILTIERNEY (ARCHDALL DEERPARK)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: B. B. Williams, Historic Monuments & Buildings Branch, Department of the Environment (NI.).
Site type: Ringfort - rath; Linear Earthwork; Stone Circle
Period/Dating: Other
ITM: E 618644m, N 855908m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.451350, -7.712509
Three sites were destroyed in the course of a Farm Capital Grants Scheme and salvage excavations were undertaken.
18 KILTIERNEY
H 215 624
Rath
Two cuttings were made, exposing a deep rock cut ditch and original entrance with paved cause-way. No artefacts were discovered.
19 KILTIERNEY
H 218 627
Linear Earthworks
This monument known as the ‘Friar’s Walk’, was almost entirely destroyed within the deer park. A section excavated across it revealed parallel banks capped with limestone chippings and internal rock-cut ditches. A small external ditch at the N end yielded flint flakes and prehistoric pottery.
20 KILTIERNEY
H219 626
Stone Circle
Total excavation of this scheduled monument revealed the sockets and settings of the destroyed circle. A well defined clay bank ran from W to N but could not be traced elsewhere. Seven burials containing beads of amber, clay, and stone together with pottery and organic remains are of Early Bronze Age date.
