2012:480 - Annyart (Black Island), Onomy (White Island), Lough Muckno, Monaghan

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Monaghan Site name: Annyart (Black Island), Onomy (White Island), Lough Muckno

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E0104 ext

Author: Martin McGonigle

Site type: Burnt mounds

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 684797m, N 818656m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.109972, -6.703198

Following on from testing conducted on the site in May 2012 (below No. 483), a programme of monitoring was conducted on the site. During monitoring of a new road and associated car parks around the White Island, evidence for five burnt mounds was uncovered. Between 7 August and 7 September 2012 monitoring and excavation continued in tandem under an extension of the original testing licence. The parts of these burnt mounds that were located within the areas of topsoil stripping were excavated, with the remaining parts of the features being preserved in situ under the undisturbed topsoil. A small number of pit-like features (some of which may have contained troughs) were excavated on the sites. A number of lithic finds were recovered from these sites, as wells as a small amount of prehistoric pottery.

John Cronin and Associates, 28 Upper Main St., Buncrana, Co. Donegal