2012:487 - Drumgeeny 2, Monaghan

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Monaghan Site name: Drumgeeny 2

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E208

Author: Rob O’Hara

Site type: Fulacht fiadh

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 667113m, N 839638m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.301086, -6.968901

Following testing in advance of the N2 Emyvale to Monaghan Road Improvement Scheme, Co. Monaghan, an excavation was undertaken in July 2012 on a disturbed fulacht fiadh in Drumgeeny townland. The site was contained within a 15m x 5m area and survived as a group of 8 separate features, mainly filled with burnt mound material. These were four localised spreads of burnt mound material, three pits (including one plank-lined trough) and a linear feature. The site is likely to comprise the remains of a ploughed out burnt mound/fulacht fiadh. Charcoal from the trough has been radiocarbon dated to the Middle Bronze Age period 1746–1538 BC.

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