Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Knockaskeheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaskeheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02541, -9.31164
- SMR number
- CL008-135----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an area of marshy pasture, on the E bank of a NW-SE flowing stream. Identified during archaeological assessment and monitoring at the site of a proposed sewage treatment plant, and subsequently excavated (Fitzpatrick 2002, 'Site 2'). This well-preserved oval-shaped mound (9.7m NE-SW; 8.8m NW-SE) was composed of decayed and heat-shattered stones. A line of three post-holes (oriented NE-SW) found within the mound were interpreted as marking fence-posts of a recent field boundary.
References
Fitzpatrick, M. 2002 Knocknaranhy, Clare. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 32, No. 093. Bray. Wordwell.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Con Herriott
Date of upload: 26 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.