County: Cork Site name: KILLINADRISH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 71:122 Licence number: 01E0077
Author: Sheila Lane, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 541322m, N 571648m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.893902, -8.852530
An archaeological assessment was requested as part of the Grant of Planning for a dwelling-house which was within the zone of archaeological potential for a fulacht fiadh. The landowner confirmed that the fulacht fiadh was levelled c. 1985. The assessment was to include testing and monitoring of all ground disturbance.
Five test-trenches were opened on the footprint of the proposed house and driveway. Two trenches in the north-west section of the site contained levelled remains of the fulacht fiadh directly under the topsoil. The dwelling-house was relocated to avoid the fulacht fiadh material and a buffer zone of 2m or more was set up between the house site and the levelled fulacht fiadh. The entrance to the site was also relocated to the east.
Consulting Archaeologists, AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
