County: Mayo Site name: Keeloges 2, Newport
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 14E0036
Author: Nikolah Gilligan and James Hession
Site type: Early/Middle Neolithic
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 494794m, N 795792m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.542994, -9.363213
Keeloges 2 consisted of two spreads (004) and (005) of burnt mound material commonly associated with fulachtaí fiadh. One phase of activity was identified. While usually associated with the Bronze Age, radiocarbon dating of ash charcoal from one of the spreads returned an Early/Middle Neolithic date. An oak charcoal fragment taken from one of the spreads of burnt mound material (004) returned an Early/Middle Neolithic date of 3637 - 3382 cal BC (2σ) (26945). The excavation was undertaken on 14 May 2014 in advance of the construction of the N59 Rossow Bends Scheme, Co. Mayo, which extends from Deerpark East townland located to the north of Westport, to Murrevagh townland to east of Mulranny Village.
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