2013:192 - BOHARNAMOE (1), Louth
County: Louth
Site name: BOHARNAMOE (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a
Licence number: 13E0290
Author: Fintan Walsh
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 693515m, N 790599m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.856420, -6.578530
The site at Boharnamoe was discovered during advance archaeological testing undertaken in 2012 by Ross MacLeod and Patricia Long (Licence Ref.: 12E374) as part of the proposed Ardee Bypass. Excavation work was undertaken on 3 September 2013. The site consisted of a heavily truncated burnt mound surviving only as an oval trough with no associated burnt mound spread. A sample of alder charcoal from the basal fill of the trough has been dated to the early Bronze Age period (2334–2137 BC).