Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Parksgrove, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parksgrove
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78404, -7.35570
- SMR number
- KK009-095----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the western flood-plain of the River Nore. A burnt mound and a metalworking site (KK009-096----) were revealed during archaeological monitoring of a Bord Gáis Éireann gas pipeline development and excavated in 1999 (Stevens 2000, 150-51; Licence no. 99E0597).
The burnt mound is located 8m N of the metalworking site. The mound (dims. 4m x 2m; D 0.15m) consists of a small spread of charcoal-rich soil, fire-cracked stone (90% sandstone/10% limestone) and silt. It is unclear whether this burnt mound is associated with the adjacent metalworking site or is an unrelated fulacht fia. (Stevens 2000, 150-51). A fulacht fia (KK009-097----) lies c. 190m to the S.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 31 July 2018
References
Stevens, P. 2000 Parksgrove: 1: burnt mound and ironworking site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 150-1 (entry 457). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.