Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Kilgobbin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobbin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26134, -6.21728
- SMR number
- DU026-161----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A burnt mound located under the S slopes of Three Rock Mountain was archaeologically excavated in 2003. It was located at in a marshy area at a kink in the stream. This horse-shoe shaped mound (L 7.6m, Wth 6.4m, D 0.15m) consisted of fire-cracked granite and charcoal. A sub-rectangular shallow cut or depression (L 1m, Wth 0.8m) was located 1m N of the burnt material. This was filled with fire-cracked stones and charcoal. No trough was present. A fire bowl and a hearth were located 8m to the S. A hearth was uncovered in the vicinity of the fire bowl. Associated with the hearth was a v-shaped structure composed of post-and stake-holes. A disturbed pit containing Early-mid-Bronze age pottery lay nearby (Cryerhall 2006, 162).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 26 May 2018.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.