County: Wicklow Site name: BALLYREMON COMMONS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: V. Buckley, OPW
Site type: Fulacht Fiadh
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 721824m, N 712230m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.146647, -6.178851
Rescue excavation in advance of land reclamation revealed a clay-lined pit with traces of three stakeholes angled into the clay at the north-west end, possibly to form a tripod arrangement. A radio carbon date of 3410±40 BP has been obtained from an axe-sharpened stake, set into the clay.
