Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

Located just down from the summit of a slight col that is c. 300m to the E. Centre-line testing (E4067) in advance of the N25 New Ross by-pass identified a spread of broken and burnt stone that was set aside for resolution as Rathgaroge 1 (Doyle et al 2010, 43). It was fully excavated (E4130) when a rectangular trough (dims 2.5m NW-SE; 1.9m NE-SW; D 0.7m) with five stake-holes in the bottom and a cluster of four at the E corner underlay two layers of broken and burnt stone (dims 4.3m E-W; 2.9m N-S; T 0.1m: 8.8m N-S; 6.4m E-W; T 0.19m). A slight hollow (dims 8.8m E-W; 4.8m N-S) just W of the trough was used as a dump for trough waste and there was a shallow pit (dims 1.89m x 1.62m; D 0.32m) nearby. (Clark and Hackett 2010, 8-10; Hackett 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 September, 2013

References

Doyle, L., Hackett, L., Hession, J., Marshall, M. Yates, D. and Bolger, T. 2010 N25 New Ross bypass road scheme, Cappagh, Co. Kilkenny to Knockroe, Co.Wexford. Archaeological services contract, Stage (1) – standard test excavation, wetland test excavation, townland boundary survey and architectural/built heritage survey. Test excavation report, under Ministerial Directions Number A52 (E4067) Unpublished report. Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Hackett, L. 2013 Rathgaroge 1. Fulacht fia and associated features. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2013: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 258, No. 811. Dublin. Wordwell.

Clark, L. and Hackett, L. 2010 New Ross bypass road scheme, Cappagh, Co. Kilkenney to Knockroe, Co. Wexford. Archaeological Services Contract, Stage (iii) – excavation, post-excavation assessment report for Rathgaroge 1 in the townland of Rathgaroge, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report, Headland Archaeology.