County: Dublin Site name: CARRICKMINES GREAT (Site 79)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1188
Author: Fiona Reilly, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 722560m, N 723303m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.245938, -6.163609
This site was identified in south County Dublin during monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the South-Eastern Motorway under licence 01E1229. An area of 9m north-east/south-west by 20m was identified as one of archaeological potential. The site was found to continue into the south-western baulk and outside the CPO line of the road. Excavation did not continue beyond the CPO line.
An area of decayed and burnt stone was found in the western side of the site. It covered two possible troughs, one of which had a post-hole on the surface at each corner. In the eastern side of the site there was a spring bowl containing water-deposited material and organic fills. One of these deposits overlapped the burnt-mound material. A sherd of Early Bronze Age pottery, probably from a food vessel, was found in that deposit (identified by Anna Brindley). The area had been disturbed by a stone-lined drain and a modern plastic drain.
Wood Road, Cratloekeel, Cratloe, Co. Clare
