Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ask, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ask
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70294, -6.26195
- SMR number
- WX007-074001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This site was excavated (E3500) during 2005 as Site 40 of the N11 Gorey to Arklow link. Located on a slight shelf on the lower W-facing slope of Ask Hill. A mound of broken and burnt stone (dims 5.7m x 4.9m; T 0.27m) overlay a circular, nearly straight-sided and flat-bottomed trough (diam. 1.9-2m; D 0.95m) which had been re-cut. A group of stake-holes immediately to the S could have pre-dated it, but a roughly metalled surface partly overlies the trough, although also incorporated into the mound. Five pits (diam. c. 0.7m-1.5m; D 0.1-0.5m) at a distance from the mound (10-20m) are probably related as many contain burnt mound material. The furnace (WX007-074002-) is just S of the trough. The house (WX007-073----) is c. 100m to the SW and the fulacht fia (WX007-075----) is c. 100m to the N. (Bower 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2012
References
Bower, N. 2008 N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Archaeogical Resolution. Preliminary report AD03/036 E3500 Site 40. Ask, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report: V. J. Keeley Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.