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
- 52.75522, -7.70111
- SMR number
- TN036-050025-
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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 a W-facing slope on the margin of a small bog. A subcircular pit (diam. 1.8m D 0.55m) discovered during the mechanical removal of a modern farm track. It contained several layers of decayed sandstone, fire-cracked sandstone and charcoal-rich sandy clays sealed by a layer of charcoal and silty clay loam. Charcoal from the pit was dated to AD 660-880. (Stevens 2000, 198)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.