1989:082 - ERRIS, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: ERRIS

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: Brendan Ó Ríordáin

Site type: Fulacht fiadh

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 582055m, N 803312m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.978769, -8.273561

A trial cutting in boggy ground adjacent to the site of a ringfort revealed evidence of a fulacht fiadh in close proximity to a spring well and stream.

Burgage More, Blessington, Co. Wicklow