Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Identified by Claire Walsh in 1986 as Site 2/38/2 during archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping associated with the Irish Gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 180). The results of her monitoring were summarised as follows; ‘This site was first recognised as a flattened fulacht fiadh mound during removal of topsoil. A slight mound outside the gas pipeline corridor led to the belief that the trough site might lie outside it. However, during trenching the site of a trough was revealed in section. It measured 1.80m in length and was 60cm deep. No timber survived in situ. The fill consisted largely of mound material but a layer of silt at the base contained abundant charcoal and fragments of wood. There were no finds’ (www.excavations.ie 1986, Site No. 38; Walsh 1987, 23). No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 29 July 2020

References

Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.

Walsh, C. 1987 Ballycahane Upper (BGE) Limerick. In C. Cotter (ed.), Excavations 1986: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 23, Site No. 38. Dublin. Organisation of Irish Archaeologists.