Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in the valley of the S-N Ballymoat stream with the canalised stream immediately to the W. First identified in archaeological testing (02E0318) in advance of the N25 Waterford City by-pass (O'Hara 2006), and fully excavated (03E1215) as Killoteran 7 (Purcell 2006).
A mound of broken and burnt stones (dims. 22m N-S; 8m E-W; T 1.1m) overlay an oval pit (dims. 1.4m x c. 1m; D 0.17m) at its centre. A trough cut out of a piece of timber (dims. 2.6m x 1m; D 0.65m) and held in place by wooden pegs was at the N edge of the mound. The mound was truncated at W by the canalised stream. (Purcell 2009; Purcell and Ginn 2011)

O'Hara, R. (2006) Site 5, fields 3-6. Killoteran. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 526. Wordwell. Bray
Purcell, J. (2006) Killoteran 7. Fulacht fia. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 501. Wordwell. Bray.
Purcell, J. (2009) N25 Waterford bypass alternative route. Archaeological investigation. Contract 1. Final report on the archaeological excavation of Killoteran 7. Unpublished report. DEHLG. Archaeological Consultancy Services.
Purcell, J.; Russell, I. and V. Ginn (2011) Killoteran 7, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 2, 12-13. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 21 January 2011