Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Carrickaready, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickaready
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16406, -7.38248
- SMR number
- WA024-115----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the valley of the N-S Mahon River, with the steam c. 200m to the W and a small hillock rising just to the W between the monument and the river. It was first identified as a burnt srpead (site 1) by C. Moloney (2006) in testing (06E0163) on the line of a water pipe, and subsequently excavated (06E0282) by J. Wren.
A mound of burnt stone material (dims. 10.4m N-S; 7.2m E-W) overlay an earth-cut pit (diam. 1.74m; D 0.8m). Two shallow oval pits 3.4m E of the trough pit may have been hearths. One piece of worked flint was recovered. Burnt mound (WA024-116----) is c. 90m to the NNE. (Wren 2009b)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 12th May, 2011.
References
Wren, J. 2009b Carrickaready. burnt mound. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 526-7, No. 1977. Dublin. Wordwell.
Moloney, C. 2006 Report on archaeological testing and monitoring at Seafield, Bunmahon, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. DEHLG (06E0163). Headland Archaeology.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.