Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyellin, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyellin
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74757, -6.20614
- SMR number
- WX003-047001-
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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 a slight fold on a W-facing slope, with the N-S Clonough River c. 400m to the W. It was excavated (E3509) as site 51 during 2005 in advance of the building of the N11 Arklow - Gorey bypass. A horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt stone (dims. 6m N-S; 3.1m E-WT 0.2m) overlay a rectangular trough (dims. 3.14m E-W; 2.15m; D 0.1m). There was a pit (dims. 0.7m x 0.6m; D 0.2m) and a number of tree-holes pre-dating the fulacht fia were also recorded as well as a palaeo-channel (Wth 0.5m; D 0.5m; L 7m) of a stream. There is a cluster of features (WX003-047002-) c. 20m to the SW and fulacht fia (WX003-048----) is c. 120m to the ENE. (Martin 2008, 395-6)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Dat of upload: 14 February, 2012
References
Martin, K. 2008 Ballyellin. Burnt mound and pits with burnt material. In I. Bennett. Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 395-6, No. 1609. Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.