Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Gortanure, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanure
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94087, -8.65907
- SMR number
- RO008C035003-
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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
Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (E3356) as Currinah III during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a basin at the base of a N-facing slope. Subcircular pit (dims 2.2m N-S; 1.65m E-W; D 0.1-0.2m) with oxidisation of the base. Charcoal from the fill produced C14 dates of 1644-1470 Cal. BC. Fulacht fia (RO008C035002-) is c. 90m to the W in Currinah townland. (Kerrigan 2009b; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010b, 349)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26th September 2011
References
Kerrigan, A. and Gillespie, R.F. 2010b Relics of the Irish rural landscape. In R.F. Gillespie and A. Kerrigan, Of troughs and tuyéres. NRA Scheme monographs No. 6, 341-364. Dublin. National Roads Authority.
Kerrigan, A. 2009b Currinah: fulachta fia and pit. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 457-8, No. 1727. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.