Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a hollow between drumlins. An archaeological excavation (05E0784) carried out as part of the N2 Castleblayney-Clontibret road realignment scheme at a site known as Grig 1 uncovered a rectangular trough (dims 1.5m x 1.25m; D 0.45m) and a sub-circular (dims 1.5m x 1.25m; D 0.25m) trough placed c. 10m apart, the former beneath a small spread of burnt mound material, the latter under a larger spread (dims 6.4m x 5.8m; T 0.2m). A fragment of charcoal from the subcircular trough produces a C14 date of 1000+-30 BP that calibrates to AD 980-1160. A sample from the other trough (MO019-050001-), located c. 10m to the SE produced a date in the Late Bronze Age.
It is probable that two fulachta fia, widely separated in time, are represented here, each being matched by a trough of a similar time period from the two fulachta fia (MO019-049----; MO018-049001-) located c. 130m to the N. (Halpin B. 2008; 2010, 6, 11,V)

Revised by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 22 June 2018

References

Halpin, B. 2010: Archaeological Excavation of Development at N2 Clontibret to Castleblayney Road Realignment, Licence No. 05E0784; Site name Grig 1. Unpublished Final Report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Halpin B. 2008, Grig 1 Circular burnt spread/possible kiln. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 312 (No. 1269). Bray. Wordwell