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 sample from the rectangular trough produced a C14 date of 2690+-30BP that calibrates to 900-800 BC (Halpin 2010, 6-7). A sample from the other trough (MO019-050----), located c. 10m to the NW produced a date at the end of the first and the start of the second millennium AD.

It is probable that two fulacht 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----; MO019-049001-) located c. 130m to the N. (Halpin B. 2008, 312; 2010, 6, 11, V)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 22 June 2018

References

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

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 Unpublished Final Report, Irish Archaeological Consultancy