County: Limerick Site name: Goatisland AGI
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LI040-046 Licence number: 24E0012
Author: András Hindli
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 563307m, N 633850m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.454871, -8.539863
A programme of pre-development archaeological testing was conducted at Goatisland AGI, County Limerick. Archaeological activity was revealed at the south-western corner of the proposed development area, in the vicinity of a previously recorded and excavated fulacht fia (burnt mound) LI040-046. The recorded archaeological site was excavated in 1986 during mitigation works at construction phase associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West – Limerick gas pipeline. The newly identified archaeological feature also consisted of a leveled former burnt mound and it is to be assumed to be an unexcavated portion of LI040-046 or additional pyrolithic activity associated with the same. It is believed that the newly identified burnt mound could have been a continuation of LI040-046, which extended beyond the limits of excavation from 1986, or a deliberately preserved in situ portion during the mitigation works. The burnt mound was truncated by several modern drainage features, appeared to contain a maximum thickness of approximately 0.2m, and spreading approximately 11.5m north-east/south-west by over 12m, extending beyond the northern limit of the excavated trench.
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