County: Clare Site name: CRAGBRIEN (BGE 3/23/4)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1027
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 530852m, N 669274m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.770073, -9.024708
This site was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West project. A deposit of burnt limestone was excavated. The stone lay on the surface of the stripped ground and was not associated with a cut. The deposit had been partially destroyed to the south by the construction of a haul road for pipeline traffic. The visible deposit measured 2m (north–south) by 0.55m and was 0.02–0.03m thick.
It is likely that this deposit was associated with another small burnt spread (No. 154, Excavations 2002, 02E1026), 25m to the south-west, and two fulachta fiadh, 25m to the north-east (No. 156, Excavations 2002, 02E1299) and 150m to the south-east (No. 153, Excavations 2002, 02E1352).
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