County: Fermanagh Site name: KILTIERNEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: C. Foley, DoE
Site type: Megalithic tomb - passage tomb and Burial ground
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 621646m, N 862699m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.512244, -7.665717
The owner insisted on the removal of twenty-one small mounds encircling a ditch at the base of the degenerated passage-tomb mound. Excavation of one mound revealed an Iron Age cremation burial accompanied by around sixty pieces of metalwork, including a complete La Tene II/III style iron fibula. Further Iron Age material was found in topsoil over other, disturbed mounds, indicating an Iron Age cremation complex.
Foley, C. (1988) ‘An enigma solved’, Hamlin, A. & Lynn, C J (eds) Pieces of the Past, HMSO.
