Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Woodstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66362, -8.51936
- SMR number
- LI006-097----
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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
In a slight depression, on the flood plain of the Mulkear River. Identified during monitoring of topsoil removal prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road. Excavated (Licence No. 01E0762) by Michael Connolly in 2001. A shallow burnt spread (diam. 12m) consisting of heat-shattered stone and charcoal mixed with boulder clay and topsoil. This material is very disturbed and it was difficult to determine if it was in-situ. The same material has been used to backfill a number of land drains uncovered across the excavation area (ibid). The recovery of some small fragments of cremated bone within the burnt material may suggest a function other than that of a fulacht fiadh (Connolly 2003, 245-6).
See attached plan extract from excavation report (Connolly 2001).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 1 July 2020
References
Connolly, M. 2001 Archaeological excavation at Woodstown, Co. Limerick. Licence No. 01E0762. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin.
Connolly, M. 2003 Woodstown; Burnt Spread. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 245-6, No. 808. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.