Burnt Mounds from Stagpark
The Burnt Mounds of Stagpark in the Townland Stagpark (or Stag Park , Irish Páirc na bhFianna ) west of Mitchelstown (Irish Baile Mhistéala ) in the north of Cork County in the south of Ireland are in an area in which a group of five Burnt Mounds (Irish fulachta fia ) from the Bronze Age .
Within 500m, three burnt mounds were registered 800m from Stagpark 2, while two more were excavated as part of a road construction project. Stagpark 3 was about half a mile south of the three and Mitchelstown 2 was about 2.0 km north. The intensive use of the small area for heating stones and water led to long-term, albeit intermittent, use in the early Bronze Age.
Mostly moist soils were used for such locations. A preference for wetland margins was identified by AA Gowen. Eoin Grogan states that in the Mooghaun area, in southeast County Clare, most of the burnt mounds occur on the edges of turloughs , bogs, and marshland. With the exception of Mitchelstown 2, which was on the north bank of the Gradoge River, the other hills are not near known or contemporary water sources. The underlying subsoil, however, is a water-impermeable clay . The archaeological evidence suggests that it was used during the Early Bronze Age on the higher Stagpark 1, 600 m to the north. An extensive use phase in the Middle Bronze Age took place on the limestone ridge of Mitchelstown 1, on the north bank of the Gradoge.
literature
- Gabriel Cooney, Eoin Grogan: Irish Prehistory. A social perspective. Wordwell, Dublin, 1994 ISBN 1 869857 11 9
- Margaret Gowen, Eoin Grogan et al .: The Bronze Age Landscapes of the Pipeline to the West: An Integrated Archaeological and Environmental Assessment 2007
- John Tierney: Archaeological Report - Stagpark 3, Co. Cork
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 15.1 " N , 8 ° 17 ′ 22.2" W.