County: Limerick Site name: BALLYCAHANE UPPER (BGE)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Claire Walsh
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 555060m, N 644846m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.553087, -8.662676
This site was first recognised as a flattened fulacht fiadh mound during removal of topsoil. A slight mound outside the gas pipeline corridor led to the belief that the trough site might lie outside it. However, during trenching the site of a trough was revealed in section. it measured 1.8m in length and was 60cm deep. No timber survived in situ. The fill consisted largely of mound material but a layer of silt at the base contained abundant charcoal and fragments of wood. There were no finds.
5 St Catherine's Rd, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
