Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyshaneduff Or The Derries, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshaneduff Or The Derries
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10339, -7.14369
- SMR number
- LA009-045----
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
New monument uncovered during topsoil-stripping in advance of the M7 Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme by Thaddeus Breen under excavation licence number 03E0662.
Site was excavated between April and June 2004 and consisted of a low mound of burnt material covering a rectangular trough and a number of other pits showed that the site was a fulacht fiadh. Removal of a further deposit immediately to the E revealed a second fulacht fiadh (LA009-046) of similar construction. The two burnt mounds did not overlap, so it was not possible to determine which was the earlier or, indeed whether they were contemporary. This site was described as Fulacht A and consisted of an irregular-shaped spread of charcoal rich soil and heat-shattered stone, 18m by 15m (Bennett 2006, 287-8).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.