County: Sligo Site name: BALLINAFAD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 95E0164
Author: John Channing
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 577858m, N 808585m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.025996, -8.337926
Road construction activity on the Curlew Bypass Project uncovered a spread of heat-fractured stones. Excavations produced evidence of two roughly circular troughs cut into the subsoil, in association with spreads of burnt sandstone. No evidence of hearths or domestic activity was uncovered, probably owing to truncation. The location of the site and the features uncovered fit within the tradition of fulacht fiadh activity.
Editor’s note: This excavation, though carried out in 1995, was not reported on in time for inclusion in the bulletin for that year.
17 Rowan House, Sussex Road, Dublin 4
