Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Coolacork, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolacork
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.94099, -6.11630
- SMR number
- WI031-103----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is the record for the burnt mound excavated by Yvonne Whitty (E3247) on the N11 road improvement scheme. There were three phases of activity on the site. The earliest comprised a stone working area and a wooden-lined trough. A radiocarbon date placed this phase of activity in the early Bronze Age. Twenty sherds of early Neolithic Carinated Bowl were recovered from the burnt material associated with this phase but these were regarded as having been disturbed from their original location. The second phase comprised a trough and associated burnt spread that cut through the earlier material and this in turn was cut by a third trough, representing the third phase of activity at the site. (Whitty 2009o)
Comprised by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 22 January 2013
References
Whitty, Y. 2009o Final Report on Site A022/061, NMSR No E3247, N11 Rathnew to Arklow Road Improvement. Unpublished excavation report submitted to Heritage and Planning Division, National Monuments Service, Department Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.