County: Clare Site name: CAPPAGH BEG (BGE 3/11/8)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1393
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 537675m, N 682282m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.887801, -8.926101
This site was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West. A spread of burnt stone was excavated and proved to be an amorphous deposit, measuring 3.2m (north–south) by 2m and 0.1–0.2m thick. The stone was mostly limestone, with occasional sandstone, and was very compact. The deposit was light coloured (i.e. not charcoal blackened) and lay within three shallow, naturally occurring depressions.
It can be reasonably assumed that the excavated material related to one of the many fulachta fiadh in the immediate vicinity.
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