County: Westmeath Site name: ENNISCOFFEY/CARAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0751
Author: Elizabeth Connolly, for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 648886m, N 746793m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.468913, -7.263698
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the corridor of Section 1B of the Pipeline to the West revealed a burnt mound. The feature was in low-lying, boggy ground, west of a small stream. It was excavated in May 2002. The mound was underneath a thin layer of peat, 0.1–0.15m deep, which overlay natural subsoil.
The burnt mound measured c. 15m north–south by 13m and was a maximum of 0.23m deep. The entire area of the mound was not fully recorded, as it extended beyond the line of the pipeline corridor to the north. The mound material consisted of black silty peat of moderate compaction and contained a moderate amount of small fire-cracked sandstones with some charcoal. There was no evidence of a trough beneath the mound. A number of furrows and field drains near the mound were excavated; these features were interpreted as modern.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
