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 4 & 5 (Hardy et al. 2010, 53-4), although an oval pit (dims 1.4m x 1.2m; D 0.15m) and a burnt stone spread (dims 2m x 0.5m; T 0.15m) had already been dug. It is situated on level ground at the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 100m to the NW. It was excavated (E4197) by M. McNamara as four discrete but disturbed spreads of burnt stone (dims 2m x 1.4m; T 0.13m: 2.12m x 1.2m; T 0.06m: 2.6m x 1.2m; T 0.07m: 9m x 6.5m; T 0.15m) which were associated with a subcircular trough (diam. 1.66-1.88m; D 0.44m), and an oval pit (dims 1.2m x 1-1.1m; D 0.2-0.32m) was c. 18m to the E. A sample from the trough produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 2136-1964. Fulacht fia (WX016-054----) is c. 30m to the NW, and the unrelated holy well (WX016-060001-) is c. 50m to the ESE. (Hardy and Ruttle 2012; McNamara 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 November, 2013

References

Hardy, C. and Ruttle, E. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4197, Mountgeorge 4 & 5. Stage (IV) Final Excavation Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).

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 Unpublished.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 Mountgeorge 4 and 5. Burnt stone spreads and two pits (including possible trough). In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 254, No. 795. Dublin. Wordwell.