Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyloughan, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyloughan
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68909, -6.26444
- SMR number
- WX007-067----
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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
The site was excavated (E3494) during 2005 as Site 33 of the N11 Gorey to Arklow link. Situated in a low-lying area on the S bank of a small ESE-WNW stream, although an older course of the stream ran just S of it. A semi-circular mound of broken and burnt stone (dims 15m E-W; 11m N-S; T 0.25m) was used in conjunction with a steep-sided, pear-shaped trough (dims 2m x 1.8m; D 0.7m). There was a cluster of stake-holes just N of the trough, and two concentrations of charcoal on the S bank of the old stream are interpreted as hearths. (Stevens 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2012
References
Stevens, P. 2008 Site 33, Ballyloughan. Burnt mound. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 396-7, No. 1612. Wordwell. Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large 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.