Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt pit
Killoran (moyne Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoran (moyne Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75198, -7.69832
- SMR number
- TN036-050013-
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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
Situated on a sandy glacial knoll with nearby Killoran house to the W. A burnt pit cutting on earlier linear field ditch was discovered during soil stripping for a sand and gravel quarry. The site consists of an oblong pit (dims. L 2.5m; Wth 1.3m; D 0.3m) the base of which contained charred timbers and charcoal. The N face of the pit was fire reddened indicating in situ burning. The pit contained a fill of small and medium sized limestone boulders within a matrix of silty clay and charcoal. Two fragments of coarse wheel-turned pottery and a small iron object were recovered from this fill. (Stevens 1999, 146-7).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.