County: Cork Site name: BAWNAGLOGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0420
Author: John Ó Néill, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 586117m, N 598424m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.137502, -8.202805
Test-trenches were opened in the vicinity of SMR 36:7, which had been uncovered and provisionally identified as a fulacht fiadh during the construction of the existing Bord Gáis pipeline through the townland. As a 100m-long domestic pipe was to intersect in the immediate vicinity, test-trenches were opened beforehand to relocate the site.
Although no evidence of a fulacht fiadh was recovered, the presence of heat-shattered stone in the topsoil of a trench to the south of the pipeline suggested that a burnt deposit had been disturbed by ploughing or lay further to the south of the proposed pipe-trench.
As a piece of iron slag was also recovered in the topsoil, it is possible that the site either is a burnt mound or comprises features associated with metalworking. The local subsoil, which is sandy and porous, would possibly be too free-draining for a trough to have been sited in the immediate area, again suggesting that the identification of the site as a fulacht fiadh is unlikely.
No archaeological deposits were disturbed during the construction of the pipe-trench.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
