County: Clare Site name: LISHEEN (BGE 3/24/3)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1225
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 529995m, N 668450m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.762560, -9.037227
This site was examined as part of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West project. It was on level ground at the waterlogged base of a steep-sided scarp, 300m to the north-west.
An ovoid spread of heat-shattered stone was excavated and was found to be a very dark brown/ black limestone with occasional sandstone pieces. Charcoal was occasionally present. The spread measured 4.9m (north-west/south-east) by 3.2m. The deposit lay directly on the natural geology and had a maximum thickness of 0.18m.
The deposit was very similar to the material excavated from nearby burnt mounds. Indeed, a fulacht fiadh was examined c. 200m to the south-west (No. 190, Excavations 2002, 02E1226). A very similar spread of heat-altered stone was also found c. 75m to the north-east (No. 188, Excavations 2002, 02E1224).
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
