Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

First identified in centre-line testing (00E0379) for the re-alignment of the N25 Wexford town to New Ross road (Elder and Tierney 2002), and completely excavated (00E0474) subsequently. It is situated in the valley of a small NE-SW stream which is c. 30m to the W. Spreads of broken and burnt stone (dims 8m E-W; 4m N-S; T 0.04-0.18m) overlay a rectangular trough (dims. 1.8m E-W; 1.54m N-S; D 0.28m) with traces of a plank-lining and some posts that may have supported it. Oak charcoal from the fill produced a C14 date of cal BC 710-530. (Noonan 2002; Noonan and Johnston 2006)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 November, 2012

References

Elder, S. and Tierney, M. 2002 N25 Rathsillatgh to Harristown Little realignment scheme. Prehistoric and medieval. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 358, No. 1068. Bray, Wordwell

Noonan, D. 2002 Dungeer. Fulacht fiadh. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 354, No. 1056. Bray, Wordwell.

Noonan, D. and Johnston, P. 2006 Final excavation report, N25 Harristown to Rathsillagh realignment, Dungeer, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 00E0474. Unpublished report, Eachtra Archaeological Projects.