Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a slight N-S dip at the bottom of an E-facing slope. Identified in testing (03E1176) for the Waterford City outer ring road (R710) (Moloney 2006e), and fully excavated under the same licence (Hegarty 2006c).
An area of broken and burnt stones (dims. 24m E-W; 17m N-S; max. T 1.1m) overlay seven troughs. The earliest phase was an oval trough (dims. 1m NE-SW; 0.8m NW-SE) with a small mound (T 0.2-0.3m). A second phase consited of most of the mound associated with one rectangular, two oval and two circular troughs. One of the oval troughs produced a C14 date of cal BC 2347-2137, but other C 14 dates vary erratically from cal BC 3902-3647 to cal BC 791-410 (Hegarty 2005, 3-4). The final phase was a rectangular trough that cut through the material of the earlier phases, and what may be a rough-out for a stone axe is associated with this phase. Four detatched shallow spreads (diam. c. 5m; T c. 0.2m) were within 20m of the monument to the S, and another spread was excavated (05E0290) immediately to the N (Pollock 2009b). (Hegarty 2005)

Hegarty, L. (2005) Waterford outer ring road:Carriganard. A final report on an archaeological rescue excavation. Unpublised report. DOEHG. Headland Archaeology. Hegarty, L. (2006c) Carriganard. Fulacht fia. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 494, No. 1865. Wordwell. Bray
Moloney, C. (2006e) Area 6, Carriganard. Fulacht fia. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 494, No. 1864. Wordwell. Bray.
Pollock, D. (2009b) 6 cross-roads Business Park, Carriganard. Burnt mound material. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 533, No. 2008. Wordwell. Dublin.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 May 2011