2006:1730 - Gortanure/Currinah, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: Gortanure/Currinah

Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO008c–033 Licence number: A020/045

Author: Richard F. Gillespie, for Mayo County Council, Westport Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo.

Site type: Testing/fulacht fiadh

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 556618m, N 799315m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.941345, -8.660750

Testing adjacent to this fulacht fiadh identified a burnt mound of a second fulacht fiadh, an isolated pit and two smaller areas of burning. These areas were excavated by Agnes Kerrigan under Ministerial Direction Number A020/060 (see No. 1727 above).