Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Kilbane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not shown
- Coordinates
- 52.65576, -8.56068
- SMR number
- LI005-088009-
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Shown on 4 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
On a gentle SSW-facing slope, in pasture, on the N side of Schoolhouse Road, Castletroy. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Flor Hurley in 2003 during monitoring (Licence No. 03E1382) for a housing scheme known as Glantan and excavated (Licence No. 03E1717) by Niamh O’Callaghan later in 2003. In Area 7, the remains of a fulachta fiadh (FF2) were excavated. It comprised of a black silty spread (10.5m x 8.5m; D 0.2m) containing heat-shattered stone and was located approximately 5m from a small stream. Two large, yet shallow rectangular-shaped features (possible troughs) and five small circular pits were recorded under the remains of the burnt spread and were all filled with heat-shattered stone (ibid). A second fulacht fiadh (FF3) (LI005-088010-) was found as a result of this excavation (O'Callaghan 2006, 309).
See attached plan extract from monitoring report (Hurley 2003).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 1 July 2020
References
Hurley, F. 2003 Archaeological monitoring at Kilbane, Castletroy, Co. Limerick. License no. 03E1382. Unpublished report for the National Monument Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
O’Callaghan, N. 2006 Kilbane, Castletroy; Bronze Age Landscape. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 309, No. 1150. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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