County: Clare Site name: BEARNAFUNSHIN (BGE 3/7/3)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0341
Author: Ken Wiggins, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 537859m, N 685100m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.913150, -8.923906
The site was discovered, on flat ground, during topsoil-stripping on 28 February 2002 along Phase 3 of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West (see No. 64, Excavations 2002, 02E0119). It was excavated by hand on 1 March 2002 and consisted of a single pit, 1.1m long, 0.39m wide and 0.15m deep. The fill was loose, dark grey/brown, silty clay, containing several small pieces of iron slag. No other archaeological features or contexts were present in the vicinity of the pit.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
