County: Cork Site name: MAGLIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0756
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 558854m, N 569163m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.873139, -8.597525
Testing in advance of the construction of the N22 Ballincollig Bypass revealed dark brown/black, charcoal-stained clay with substantial quantities of heat-cracked stone. The surrounding area was stripped of turf and topsoil to reveal the extent of the deposit. The subcircular fulacht deposit had dimensions of c. 6.5m by c. 5.5m with a maximum depth of 0.25m. It sat in a shallow depression. To the south of the main spread were two pits; the first was circular, c. 0.6m in diameter and 0.22m deep, whilst the second was c. 0.6m in diameter and 0.25m deep and had a shallow extension running some 1.6m to the south-east.
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