Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Boggaun (drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boggaun (drumahaire By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27095, -8.19824
- SMR number
- LE011-169002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a basin at the base of a W-facing slope. Archaeological testing (12E0128) over an area of about 10 ha (c. 25 acres) identified four areas of burnt mound material in two adjacent N-S trenches. This was an amorphous deposit (dims 2.5m x 1.5m; T 0.1m) beneath topsoil (D 0.3m), and was completely excavated. Charred hazel, oak and ash were present in a soil sample (McKenna 2013, 6), and a fragment of hazel nut shell produced a C14 date of 3799+-32 BP (2389-2136 cal. BC). (Hull 2013, 3, 9)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 January 2020
References
Hull, G. 2013 Glencar Manorhamilton GAA, Co. Leitrim. A Final Archaeological Excavation Report. Licence No. 12E0128. Unpublished report, TVAS
McKenna, R. 2013 Charred plant material. In Hull 2013, 4-9.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.