Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Mountgeorge 3 (Hardy et al. 2010, 52-3). It is situated on level ground at the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 80m to the NW. It was excavated (E4192) by M. McNamara when three layers of burnt mound material (dims 2.3m x 0.5-0.9m; T 0.11m: 1.5m x 0.4m; T 0.06m: 3.8m x 0.9m; T 0.12m) overlay a subcircular trough (dims 1.94m x 1.66m; D 0.48m), whose flat base was lined by three large stones. Its four fills contained burnt stone, and a C14 date of cal. BC 2400-2137 was derived from the trough, but no artefacts were recovered. Fulacht fia (WX016-055----) is c. 30m to the SE, and the burnt mounds (WSX016-045----; WX016-053----) are c. 120m to the W and c. 80m to the N respectively. (Hardy and Ruttle 2012; McNamara 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 November, 2013

References

Hardy, C., Nugent, L., Homan Reid, R; O'Liathain, N; Whitty, Y.; and Coleman, C. 2010 N11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme. Archaeological Consultancy Services, Stage (1)a. E4110. Testing report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished. TVAS (Ireland).

McNamara, M. 2013 Quarry 1. Possible hearth and ditch. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 257, No. 809. Dublin. Wordwell.

Hardy, C. and Ruttle, E. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4192, Mountgeorge 3. Stage (IV) Final Excavation Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).