Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Kilmore Upper, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore Upper
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54280, -8.01810
- SMR number
- TS060-131----
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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
A limited excavation in 2000 was carried out adjacent to an enclosuse (TS060-004----) (Hodkinson 2002, 322). It revealed a c. 0.1m thick deposit of burnt stone and charcoal, sandwiched between c. 0.3m of topsoil and the natural subsoil (ibid.). The deposit appears to measure 14-15m N-S by 7-8m E-W (ibid.). The deposit is in the lowest and dampest part of the field, and it is tentatively identified as material from a fulacht fiadh (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 July 2014
References
Hodkinson, B. 2002 Kilmore Upper: Enclosure. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 322. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.