County: Tipperary Site name: DER235, DERRYVILLE BOG, Killoran
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0158
Author: John Ó Néill, Lisheen Archaeological Project, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd
Site type: Road - unclassified togher
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 620800m, N 668557m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.767660, -7.691782
Forty metres north of the above group of sites was a 6.7m-long, 2m-wide dump of burnt stone and charcoal (DER235), overlain by a dump of brushwood, mostly birch, with some alder and willow. The Bord na Móna drain had removed the central portion of the site, destroying approximately 22% of it. A best felling-date of 1221–1203 BC (Q9541) was obtained from a collapsed oak lying directly on top of the western portion of the site. The upper surface of the oak was in very poor condition, suggesting that it collapsed when there was very little peat covering the site.
There was no evidence of heating or burning of the peat below the deposit of burnt stones and charcoal which formed the lower level of the site. This appears to have been derived from one of the two fulachtaí fiadh which lay close by, DER265 (Excavations 1997, No. 503) and DER240 (Excavations 1997, No. 500). Both have produced dates which could place them earlier than DER235.
Minorco Lisheen Ltd, Killoran, Moyne, Co. Tipperary
