Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ramstown Lower, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ramstown Lower
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67153, -6.30078
- SMR number
- WX007-085004-
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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
Archaeological testing (12E0306) in an area of c. 7 ha (c. 18acres) c. 250m WSW of the core of Gorey town (WX007-033----) identified and excavated two fulachta fia, three burnt mounds, a pit and a corn-drying kiln. This large fulacht fia (dims 14m ENE-WSW; 11m NNW-SSE; max. T 0.45m) in Area D was on the S side of a small E-W stream or drain and c. 23m WSW of the fulacht fia (WX007-085002-) and 5m ENE of the burnt mound material (WX007-085006-). The mound sealed a large, sub-circular trough (dims 2.28m N-S; 1.97m E-W; max. D 0.43m) filled largely with burnt stone. The trough was cut by a smaller, circular pit, which also contained a high degree of stone. There were four stake-holes just S of the trough, and hazel from one of them produced a C14 date of 1010-834 Cal. BC. (Bailey 2013, 9, 10) See this web-paged accessed on 18 September, 2015. http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Wexford/0023614/
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 September, 2015
References
Bailey, F. 2013 Final report on archaeological excavations at Gorey Corporation Lands and Ramstown Lower, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 12E0306. Unpublished report. Irish Archaeological Consultancy
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.