County: Tipperary Site name: KIL:05, 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 621230m, N 666667m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.750651, -7.685519
A rescue excavation was carried out when this fulacht fiadh was revealed during topsoil-stripping for a rock stockpile area. No trace of the site was visible prior to construction.
It consisted of a sub-oval trough, backfilled with burnt fire-cracked stone and charcoal, partly sealed by a truncated horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt sandstone, silt and charcoal, and an area of in situ burning or hearth. The trough was orientated north-west/south-east, measured 1.53m in length, 1.1m in width and 0.24m in depth, and contained a fragment of animal tooth. An internal stake-hole was cut into the eastern wall of the trough and an associated external stake-hole cut subsoil immediately to the west of the trough. The burnt mound was orientated north–south and measured 7.3m in length, 6m in width and 0.11m in depth, spreading out downslope and surrounding the trough. The burnt area or hearth measured 2.8m in length and 1.7m in width, and was located 4m south of the mound, but was probably contemporary. The site is located on the western break of slope of a low plateau on which sites KIL:04, 06 and 07 (Nos 535, 530 and 531 Excavations 1997) were located, and overlooked a small stream.
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