Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a small S-N valley and on the E bank of the canalised Errew River, c. 15-30m from the stream and c. 200-300m from where the stream now debouches into Errew Lough. However, the location would once have been part of the lake fringe, and layers of peat covered and underlay the excavated features. Archaeological monitoring (06E0743) of an extensive area identified four spreads of burnt mound material in Area 5 (Péterváry 2006) which were all fully excavated under the same licence (Péterváry 2007). The most southerly feature consisted of a clay platform (dims 4m E-W; 2.1m N-S; max. D 0.32m) with a thin covering of broken and burnt stone. No trough was identified and the material may have been spread from the trough (LE036-047003-) c. 8m to the NW, but a charcoal sample produced a C14 date of 790-500 bc. (Péterváry 2010, 287)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 9 January 2020

References

Péterváry, T. 2010 Errew: Fulachta fia. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 286-7, No. 1081. Dublin, Wordwell

Péterváry, T. 2007 Archaeological excavation at Errew, County Leitrim. Preliminary Report. Licence No. 06E0743. Unpublished report, Dominic Delaney and Associates, Galway.

Péterváry, T. 2006 Archaeological monitoring of topsoil removal at Rinn, Clooncoe and Errew townlands, County Leitrim. Licence No. 06E0743. Unpublished report, Dominic Delaney and Associates, Galway.