County: Limerick Site name: DUNTRYLEAGUE (BGE)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Claire Walsh
Site type: Pits
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 576055m, N 627749m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.400751, -8.351863
These features were revealed at a distance of c.15m from the exposed enclosure ditch of the ring-barrow (no.45, EXCAVATIONS, 1986) in an area which had been deeply scarped at the approach to a wet ditch. They occurred over a 12m stretch and all were severely truncated.
Pit A was a hearth pit 67cm x 49cm x 13cm. Burnt animal bone was recovered from the fill.
Pit B lay 12m from pit A. It was kidney-shaped in plan, measuring 1.3m x 50cm x 12cm. It had a charcoal-rich fill with heat-shattered stones, which yielded the smashed remains of a coarse undecorated pot which was inverted. Cremated bone also recovered from the fill could not be identified.
Pit C lay just 50cm south-east of pit B. It was irregular in plan, measuring 33cm x 61cm x 13cm. The fill contained flecks of burnt bone.
5 St Catherine's Rd. Glenageary, Co. Dublin
