Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Identified during archaeological monitoring associated with the Limerick Main Drainage Southern Interceptor Scheme. Excavated under licence no. 00E0204 by Paul Stevens (Stevens 2000), the results were summarised as following; ‘The site was revealed as a small oval deposit of fire-cracked sandstone and charcoal-rich silt within a small ovoid hollow, in white and yellow glacial marl. The deposit measured 4.2m in length (south-east/north-west) by 1.8m and 0.15m in maximum depth, 2.659–2.542m OD. Excavation revealed no definitive cut, and the hollow had an irregular profile. No other archaeological features were identified in the surrounding area, although the marshy flood-plain terrain is characteristic of the siting of fulachta fiadh’ (www.excavations.ie; Stevens 2002, 201).

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 26 June 2020

References

Stevens, P. 2000 Archaeological Excavation Rossbrien, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report (Licence No. 00E0204), submitted by Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd. on behalf of Limerick Corporation to the National Monuments Service, Dúchas.

Stevens, P. 2002 Rossbrien 1: Burnt mound. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 201 (No. 611). Bray. Wordwell.