County: Limerick Site name: KILTENAN SOUTH (BGE 3/63/2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0573
Author: Emer Dennehy, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 543733m, N 641714m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.523885, -8.829151
The site was exposed during monitoring of topsoil-stripping along Section 3 of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West, from Goatisland, Co. Limerick, to Gort, Co. Galway. Initial topsoil-stripping revealed the site as the shallow remains of a burnt mound, measuring 7m north–south by 4m. Cleaning by hand revealed two large spreads and four natural hollows, all filled with fire-cracked limestone and sandstone in a charcoal-rich matrix.
The larger spread was a mixed area of natural and fulacht-type burnt stone material in an L-shaped hollow, measuring 1.9m north–south by 1.4m with a depth of 0.1m. The smaller spread was a subcircular depression measuring 1m by 1.3m with a maximum depth of 0.12m. The four hollows averaged 0.8m in diameter and were 0.08–0.02m deep; all were filled with the same fire-cracked limestone and sandstone in a charcoal-rich matrix.
Running east–west across the site was a linear plough furrow over 5m long, 0.12m wide and 0.09m deep, truncating the centre of the site.
The site can be interpreted as a series of hollows filled with displaced fulacht material from an area outside the limits of the Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline.
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