Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Cloonturk, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonturk
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86690, -7.91092
- SMR number
- LE035-043----
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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
Situated on a fairly level landscape, sloping down slightly to the NW. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0983) for a new line of the N4 (O’Connor et al. 2005, 25), and later fully resolved (E003292) as Cloonturk 2. A large spread of broken and burn stone (dims 8m x 6m; max. T 0.3m) was completely excavated and covered a pit (dims 1.2m x 0.96m; D 0.5m), the E half of which was filled with stone and the rest with peaty clays. A piece of struck flint came from the burnt mound and mound material produced a C14 date of 3976+-30BP (2580-2400 cal. BC) placing it at the cusp of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Two smaller deposits of broken and burnt stone (dims 1.9m x 1.3m: 3m x 1.8m; T 0.1m) were in the vicinity and a sample from the larger produced a C14 date of 3775+_30 BP (2300-2050) placing it at the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. (McGowan and O’Connor 2008, 14-15)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January 2020
O’Connor, D. J., Marta Muniz Pérez and Sheelagh Conran 2005 N4 Dromod Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract Licence No. 05E0983 Preliminary Report. Unpublished, CRDS
References
McGowan, L. and O’Connor, D. J. 2009 N4 Dromod – Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract. Cloonturk 2. Ministerial Direction A 31 (A31-005/E003292) Final Report, CRDS
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.