County: Clare Site name: LISHEEN (BGE 3/24/5)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1063
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt pit
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 529581m, N 667908m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.757636, -9.043243
This site was examined as part of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West project. A shallow charcoal-rich pit, ovoid and measuring 1.4m (north-west/south-east) by 1.05m, was excavated. The feature had gently sloping sides and a flattish base that was 0.05m below the stripped ground surface. It had probably been truncated during topsoil-stripping, as machine tooth scars were evident across the pit, and may have originally been up to 0.1m deep. The fill was a black fine silt with as much as 80% charcoal.
The shallow pit had been used for a fire, and the immediately surrounding natural geology was heat-reddened by oxidisation. A bulk sample of the pit fill was taken. It is hoped that species identification of the burnt wood will allow comparison with the fills of similar isolated fire-pits of indeterminate date.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
