Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Excavated in 2006 in advance of the M8/N8 Cullahill to Cashel Road Improvement Scheme (Excavation licence no. E2394, Area 2, Site A). A mound (12.85m E-W; 11.6m N-S; D 0.42m) composed of several layers of dark sandy silt that contained large amounts of charcoal and heat-shattered stone. Three troughs lay beneath the mound. Trough A (L 1.65m; Wth 1.51m; D 0.12m) was subrectangular with vertical sides and a flat base and there were three stake-holes (one at N one at SW and one at S). Trough B (L1.66m; Wth 1.12m; D 0.14m) was subrectangular with sloping sides and an irregular base. Trough C (L 2.65m; Wth 1.2-2m; D 0.19m) was subcircular with straight sides and a flat base. A sample of charcoal from Trough C returned a radiocarbon date of 830-590 cal BC (Poz-26543). Another fulacht fia (KK008-173----) lies c. 20m to the SW. (Moriarty 2008, 194, no. 790) Hardy and Green 2009; Hardy 2009, 262, no. 1026)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 9 October 2013

References

Hardy, C. and Green, B. 2009 M8/N8 Cullahill to Cashel Road Improvement Scheme. Archaeological Resolution. Final Report. E2394 Site AR 55 – 57, Glashare, Kilkenny. Unpublished excavation report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Moriarty, C. 2008 Glashare. Burnt mound. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 194, no. 790. Dublin. Wordwell.

Hardy, C. 2009 Site AR55 to AR57, Glashare. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 262, no. 1026. Dublin. Wordwell.