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 Toom 3 (Hardy et al. 2010, 74-5). It is situated on a slight S-facing slope with a NE-SW section of a small meandering E-W stream c. 10m to the S. Excavation (E4281) by Y. Whitty recorded a C-shaped spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 6.3m x 4.5m; max. T 0.26m) open to the SE overlying an oval trough (dims 2m x 1.2m; D 0.4m). A short gully (Wth 0.9m; D 0.2m; L 1.4m) attached to the S of the trough decants into a palaeochannel. A collection of 26 stake-holes c. 1m N of the trough and gully form two rough E-W lines in a concentrated area (dims 1.8m x 1.7m), and c. 5m N of the trough were two pits (dims 1.2m x 0.45m; D 0.3m: 0.38m x 0.37m; D 0.23m) and a post-hole. The fulacht fia (WX020-103----) is c. 85m to the ENE and the unrelated hearth (WX020-107----) is c. 190m to the ESE in Ballydawmore townland. (McNamara 2011; Whitty 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

References

Whitty, Y. 2013 Toom 3: displaced burnt spread and associated features. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 264, No. 828. Dublin. Wordwell.

McNamara, M. 2011 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4281, Toom 3. 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 Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).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 Unpublished.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).