Glenasmole Roads

GLENASMOLE ROADSKnockanteedanFrom Ann Mount the road continues to descend for half a mile toa bridge which crosses the upper end of Friarstown Glen. Belowthis road and overlooking the lower dam of the water works is agrassy mound 6 feet high and 30 yards in diameter. It is composedof earth with some stones and appears to have been dug into inseveral places and the soil piled about in irregular heaps. In one ofthese excavations part of a large rock has been exposed. Thismound was formerly known as Knockanteedan but that name isnow no longer remembered.PiperstownTo the east of Glassamucky the ground rises up steeply towardsPiperstown. In 1953, as previously mentioned underGlassamucky, Professor Brindley of University College Dublinhad noticed the two small low burial mounds on a flat area southof the summit. The hill was at that time covered with a thin layerof peat and a deep growth of heather. In 1960 an extensivemountain fire stripped most of the hillside of both peat andheather and left it as a barren waste of gravelly soil. This burningrevealed the presence of at least thirteen other prehistoric sitespreviously hidden under the heather.These sites fall into two distinct groups. Along the top edge of thesteep ground were eight small burial cairns some with remains ofkerbs. Scattered over a level area east of the cairns were seven welldefined hut sites, most of which had a stone edged hearth in thecentre of the floor. These were reported to the National Museumand Mr. Etienne Rynne undertook to investigate the sites with thehelp of voluntary labour.He first excavated one of the hut sites where worked flints were tobe seen on the surface of the ground. The outline of the hut wasroughly rectangular and was defined by lines of stones. Thehearth was rectangular in shape, edged by a well fitted stone kerb33