County: Roscommon Site name: Bockagh 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0300
Author: Tom Janes, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 560507m, N 797398m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.924436, -8.601262
Bockagh 1 was discovered during a first phase of testing undertaken by Nial O’Neill in 2009 (Excavations 2009, No. 699, 09E0475) within the footprint of the proposed N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass. The Stage (iii) excavation work was undertaken between 23 and 31 August 2010.
The main body of the site comprised a large kidney-shaped burnt mound or waste from activity carried out in the associated rectangular wood-lined trough. Bockagh 1 was located close to a cluster of other burnt mounds in Bockagh townland at Bockagh 2, 3 and 4 (see Nos 565–7 below).
