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
- 52.75096, -7.68722
- SMR number
- TN036-050017-
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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 at the base of an E-facing slope in undulating countryside. A burnt pit discovered during soil stripping consisting of an oval-shaped pit (dims. L 2.46m; Wth 1.5m; D 0.4m) with fire-reddened sides indicating in situ burning. The pit contained several layers of clayey silt with intermittent layers of charcoal. (Stevens 2000, Killoran 15, 198)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.