Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Parkbaun, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parkbaun
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72845, -6.24071
- SMR number
- WX003-044002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the valley of a SW-NE stream, just W of where it is joined by a smaller S-N stream. It was excavated (E3504) as site 46 during 2005 in advance of the building of the N11 Arklow - Gorey bypass. A silt wash from the stream overlay a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims. 11.5m x 4m) which in turn overlay a subrectangular trough (dims. 1.3m x 1.1m; D 0.3m) cut into a number of silt deposits. Three pieces of worked wood had been truncated by the trough. Fulacht fia (WX006-044001-) is c. 5m to the W. (Martin 2008, 407)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 February, 2012
References
Martin, K. 2008 Parkbaun. Burnt mounds. In I. Bennett. Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 407-08, No. 1663. Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.