Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Glenbane West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenbane West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60636, -9.05517
- SMR number
- LI010-150----
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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
Fulacht fia excavated by Nikolah Gilligan (08E0782) and described as 'four pits and four troughs, some of which had internal postholes. The flooding of the palaeochannel had caused a deposit of heat-shattered stone and charcoal which had been produced in one of the troughs to spread across the site and seal the other features. Specialist analysis shows that yew was the dominant species present in the spread and the trough that had produced it. This was an unusual discovery as oak tends to be the dominant species identified ftom fulacht fiadh sites. Charcoal from the base of a posthole within one of the troughs was dated to 1129-1007 cal. BC (UBA 11553), which placed the site in the Middle Bronze Age.' This description is posted on the web at the following internet address (accessed 2 August 2012): http://www.excavations.ie/
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of Upload: 3 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.