County: Wicklow Site name: CRONYKEERY I
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0825
Author: Ian W. Doyle for Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 728762m, N 697707m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.014558, -6.081003
Slight traces of the presence of a fulacht fiadh were revealed in the southern part of the townland of Cronykeery, Co. Wicklow, in May 2001, during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook– Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. Small spreads of heat-shattered stone and charcoal were observed in low-lying ground some 3m north of an unnamed stream.
Hand-cleaning found several small, thin spreads of charcoal and heat-shattered stones. Two small pits were also identified which were filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal. These pits measured on average 0.5m by 0.5m with a depth of 0.17–0.2m, and were generally too small to have functioned as troughs. It was concluded that the material identified was perhaps peripheral to a larger fulacht fiadh outside the way-leave of the gas pipeline.
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