County: Limerick Site name: DUNTRYLEAGUE (BGE)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Eoin Grogan
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 575855m, N 627849m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.401641, -8.354808
Both the upper portion and the northern side of this pit were removed in trenching. The surviving section was 70cm in diameter, 40cm in width and was 35cm deep.
It had a bowl-shaped profile with an overhanging lip. Around the edges below the lip were the charred remains of a lining of upright timbers which enclosed a roughly circular core 40cm in diameter. This survived to a maximum height of 5cm. A stakehole was revealed at the base of the pit immediately beneath the southern edge of the planked core. There were four lenses of fill, all of which were burnt and heavily charcoal-flecked.
There were no finds, nor were there any flecks of burnt bone in the fill.
5 St Catherine's Rd. Glenageary, Co. Dublin
