County: Cork Site name: DROMVANE 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0636
Author: Redmond Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 538697m, N 555451m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.748043, -8.887806
The site was initially identified, in the course of topsoil-stripping on the Ballincollig–Ballineen gas pipeline, as a surface scatter of blackened soil and heat-shattered stone. Preliminary investigations suggested that the material was dragged onto this area during ploughing.
A trench 1.2m wide was excavated over a distance of 25m from east to west along the wayleave to test this spread. The results showed the material to have been very shallow and ephemeral, being barely 0.05m in depth. The spread is limited to two patches along the length of the trench.
One subcircular area of blackened soil and heat-shattered stone was visible on the surface of the wayleave to the west of the test-trench. This feature was 1.81m in diameter. When half-sectioned, it showed a deposit of fulacht fiadh material semicircular in profile and surviving to a maximum depth of 0.4m.
It would appear that the main concentration of burnt material lies to the north of the pipeline corridor, on land currently under crop.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
