Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt pit
Tirnaneill, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tirnaneill
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not idicatred
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28325, -6.96577
- SMR number
- MO009-079----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated in a relatively low-lying position in an undulating landscape with drumlins. Archaeological testing (12E0068) in advance of an improvement of the N2 Monaghan to Emyvale road identified an isolated pit (dims 1.72m x1.46m; max. D 0.27m) which was excavated under the same licence. It was filled with fractured stones in a black soil matrix with charcoal inclusions. A piece of alder from the pit produced a C14 date of 1022 +- 29 BP (AD 902-1147). (O’Hara 2012a, 5, 17)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2020
O’Hara, R. 2012a N2 Monaghan to Emyvale Road Improvement Scheme. Stage 1, Stage 2. Licence No. 12E0068. Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.