County: Galway Site name: DOUGHISKA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA082-043 Licence number: 03E1733
Author: Jerry O’Sullivan, National Roads Design Office
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 534665m, N 726686m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.286456, -8.979842
A large burnt mound lies on the route of the proposed N6 Galway to Ballinasloe national road scheme at Doughiska. Test-trenches were opened by hand on the flank of the mound and on the adjacent ground surface. Other mounds at this site were excavated by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd in the early 1990s and charcoals from one of these yielded a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date. The present mound was confirmed to be a well-preserved burnt mound or fulacht fiadh, but no associated features were discovered on the fringes of the mound.
The mound will be destroyed by the construction of the proposed road and total excavation of the feature and its environs is proposed.
The test excavations were conducted by Galway County Council and funded by the National Roads Authority under the aegis of the National Development Plan.
Galway County Council
