County: Cavan Site name: DRUMMANY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0164
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 640638m, N 810642m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.043348, -7.379521
Archaeological monitoring of the Cavan Bypass in Drummany, Co. Cavan, revealed an area of heat-cracked stones that was subsequently excavated.
A cutting measuring 10.4m north-south by 6m east-west was opened. Topsoil overlay a layer of large, angular, shattered sandstone in a brown, sandy clay with inclusions of charcoal, which was up to 0.15m deep, 3.3m north-south and 0.02m east-west. It overlay a layer of smaller, angular, fire-cracked sandstone in a loose, black, charcoal-rich soil, was up to 0.3m deep and extended for 8.1m north-south and 5.8m east-west. A subrectangular trough with rounded corners measuring 1.8m north-south and 1.7m east-west was excavated and was filled with burnt stone. This feature was cut into the compact, grey-green natural.
Part of the site was truncated by a field boundary. No artefacts or bone were recovered. The site lies close to a small lake, an unclassified megalithic tomb, possibly a wedge tomb, a standing stone at Tullybuck and other fulachta fiadh excavated along the road's path.
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