County: Tipperary Site name: KIL:01, Killoran
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0372
Author: Paul Stevens, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 620549m, N 666894m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.752717, -7.695604
This site was revealed during monitoring of topsoil removal for the 10m-wide construction haul road. No surface trace of it was visible prior to excavation.
The fulacht fiadh was located at the base of the north-facing slope of a small esker. It consisted of a single square trough, backfilled with accumulated burnt/fire-cracked stone material, and sealed by a surrounding low, horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked sandstone and a sandy charcoal-rich matrix, spread downslope of the trough. The trough measured 1.5m in length, 1.5m in width and 0.3m in depth. The mound measured 8m (east–west) by 7m (north–south). A small chert thumbnail scraper was recovered from the mound material. The area stripped for the haul road exposed the majority of the mound, with only a small portion of the southern end remaining under topsoil.
Two parallel, linear, peat-filled field ditches, located on the top of the hill east of the site, were also revealed. These appear to be of late medieval or post-medieval date.
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