2016:283 - TURLOUGH HILL, Clare
County: Clare
Site name: TURLOUGH HILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL006-17001
Licence number: 16E0130
Author: Ros Ó Maoldúin
Author/Organisation Address: Laghtagoona House, Gort Rd, Corofin, Co. Clare
Site type: Hut site
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 530406m, N 706883m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.107971, -9.039391
The excavation comprised two cuttings, each of which traversed a pair of conjoined house-foundations. The excavations aimed to establish the date, cultural context and basic construction form of the house-foundations. There are approximately 160 such house-sites on Turlough Hill and they surround two presumed ritual monuments, a cairn and a labyrinthine-like enclosure.
No artefacts were found, however, a good amount of charcoal and other charred material retrieved during the excavation should allow for radiocarbon dating of the remains. Ten samples have been sent to the radiocarbon laboratory in Uppsala and we are currently awaiting the results.
The preliminary report is available on the author’s academia.edu page https://nuigalway.academia.edu/RosOMaolduin
