Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline identified a localised spread of broken and burnt stone in a darkened soil (1A/20/1), which was completely excavated (02E0641). The monument had been truncated by agricultural activity but three small spreads of broken and burnt stone overlay a rectangular trough (dims 1.5m E-W; 0.9m N-S; max. D 0.65m) which had several intercutting and slightly earlier pits to the E and NE filled with silty clays in the main, as was the trough. There was a large oval pit (dims 3.6m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW; max. D 0.5m) to the W filled with burnt mound material. Radiocarbon dates of 2565-2366 cal. BC and 2463-2145 cal. BC were returned for two of the pits. (Baker 2004; 2005, 5-8; Baker 2007)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 March, 2018

References

Baker, C. 2005 Gas Pipeline to the West, Section 1A Archaeological Final Report, Cooksland, Co. Meath. Licence No. 02E0641. Site ref. 1A/20/1. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen and Co.

Baker, C. 2007 No. 1442. Cooksland, Fulacht fia. in Grogan, E., O'Donnell, L, and P. Johnston (eds) The Bronze Age landscapes of the Pipeline to the West: an integrated archaeological and environmental assessment, 323. Bord Gáis Eireann and Wordwell, Bray

Baker, C. 2004 Cooksland: Fulacht fia, 02E0641. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 408, No. 1442. Bray, Wordwell