Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a shelf on a W-facing slope, with a slight E-W stream c. 60m to the NW heading W to join the N-S Mahon River c. 600m to the W. It was first identified as a burnt srpead by C. Moloney (2006) in testing (06E0163) on the line of a water pipe, and subsequently sample excavated (06E0284) by T. Janes.
A section (L 8m; T 0.4m) was excavated but most of the mound survives outside the pipeline corridor. Although no artefacts were recoverd a piece of oak charcoal produced a C14 date of 1535-1433 cal. BC (Janes 2008, 3, App. 8). (Janes 2009)

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload/revision: 12th May, 2011.

References

Janes, T. 2008 East Waterford water mains supply, Contract 11. Final report on site 3 06E0284; a burnt spread in the townland of Carrickaready, Co. Waterford. (06E0284) Unpublished report. Headland Archaeology.

Moloney, C. 2006 Report on archaeological testing and monitoring at Seafield, Bunmahon, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. DEHLG (06E0163). Headland Archaeology.

Janes, T. 2009 Carrickaready: burnt spread. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 527, No. 1978. Dublin. Wordwell.