Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a narrow low NE-SW ridge at the edge of a raised peat bog that extends off to the E and S. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0983) for a new line of the N4 (O’Connor et al. 2005, 43), and later fully excavated (E003311) as a part of Aghnahunshin. Excavation recorded three fulachta fia and associated features. This is a spread of burnt and broken stone (dims 10.2m x 9m; max. T 0.14m) overlying a circular trough (diam. 2m; D 0.7m). The trough had four layers with varying proportions of silt, sand, burnt stone and charcoal, and it was cut by a shallow feature (dims 4.5m x 1.5m; D 0.3m) extending off to the NE, which may have been a step. This was filled with three layers of burnt stone. (Seaver and O’Connor 2009, 13-14; Seaver 2009, 311)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 9 January 2020

O’Connor, D. J., Marta Muniz Pérez and Sheelagh Conran 2005 N4 Dromod-Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract Licence No. 05E0983 Preliminary Report. Unpublished, CRDS

References

Seaver, M. and O’Connor, D. J. 2009 N4 Dromod – Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract. Aghnahunshin. Ministerial Direction A 31 (A31-023/E003311) Final Report, Unpublished, CRDS

Seaver, M. 2009 Aughnahunshin. Prehistoric. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 311-2, No. 1199. Dublin, Wordwell