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Burnt pit

Cornacreeve (trough By.), County Monaghan, Ireland

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Townland
Cornacreeve (trough By.)
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.33251, -6.95972
SMR number
MO006-038----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape with drumlins. Archaeological testing (17E0310) on the line of road improvements to the N2 Monaghan to Emyvale road identified two pits (diam. 0.8m: diam. 0.5m) 1m apart, which were fully excavated under another licence (17E0603) when it transpired that the smaller feature was a natural hollow but the other pit (diam. 0.8m; D 0.12m) contained heat-shattered stone and hazel charcoal, from what is interpreted as a roasting pit. (O’Connell 2017, 2018)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 29 January 2020

O’Connell, A. 2017 N2 Monaghan to Emyvale Phase 3: Carrigans (Corracrin) to Emyvale. Testing Report, Stage (I) Services Licence No. 17E0310 unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning

O’Connell, A. 2018 N2 Monaghan to Emyvale Phase 3: Carrigans (Corracrin) to Emyvale. Stage (ii-iii) pre-excavation & excavation services. Licence No. 17E0603 Excavation Report, Cornacreeve. unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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