Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a hollow at the bottom of the NE-facing slope of the Hill of Lloyd. Archaeological testing (04E0913) by J. Roynane (2005) at Testing Area 14 of Contract 4 of the M3 motorway identified three spreads of burnt mound material on the route of the N52 Kells link road. The material was on either side of the NW-SE field bank and townland boundary between Commons of Lloyd to the SW and Town Parks to the NE (excavations.ie 2004:1345). These were completely resolved (E003156) by D. Bayley (2010) as Town Parks/Commons of Lloyd 1 in February – March 2007 (excavations.ie 2007:1401) when just over 3700 square metres were opened and three burnt mounds were recorded.

This consisted of a large spread (diam. 20m; T 0.21m) of dark brown silty clay with broken and burnt stones that covered a possible trough in the form of a circular flat-bottomed pit (diam. 1.2m; max. D 0.96m) filled with redeposited brown/black gravelly silt with burnt stones. This was located at the S extent of the mound and was sealed by mound material. At the NE edge of the mound an oval pit (dims 1.5m x 0.9m; D 0.3m) had a clay lining and a fill of charcoal-rich black sandy silt beneath a top fill of burnt mound material. This mound was cut by numerous post-medieval field drains, and no artefacts were recovered from it. (Bayley 2010, 8-9)

Site the attached site plan and monument plan from Bayley (2010, figs 5, 10)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 March 2022