County: Cork Site name: CLASHROE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Maurice Hurley, for the National Parks & Monuments Branch, Office of Public Works
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 530465m, N 613553m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.269273, -9.018795
Part of the wooden trough of a fulacht fiadh was exposed during a modern drainage scheme. The principal features uncovered were a mound of burnt shattered stones; a wooden trough surrounded by an area of stones trampled into the clay; a buried turf horizon covered by redeposited clay probably resulting from the excavation of the pit in which the trough was placed. A hearth occupied a shallow pit on the eastern side of the trough and eleven stake-holes occurred on the southern and western side of the hearth. The trough was very well preserved. It consisted of two individual pieces of timber; the greatest part was hollowed from a single tree trunk (oak), while a smaller plank blocked one side.
