County: Dublin Site name: CARRICKMINES GREAT(Site 75)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1130
Author: Gary Conboy, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 720810m, N 724405m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.256235, -6.189401
This site was discovered during monitoring of the South-Eastern Motorway. It was on the southern edge of the road-take and originally appeared to be a spread of burnt stone and charcoal-rich soil, which contained a number of linear features.
On excavation, these linear features proved to be agricultural furrows. The earlier furrows were oriented east–west and were cut by later furrows running north–south. The fill of these furrows was a mixture of fulacht-like material and ploughsoil.
Only two other features were revealed on the site; these may have been pits, but, owing to severe tree-root disturbance, their true shape was not identifiable.
The baulk section on the southern edge of the site revealed a layer of fulacht-like material on average 0.2m deep. Also visible in the field to the south was a slight rise in ground level, suggesting a low mound in the area.
Site 75 appears to part of a fulacht fiadh that lies to the south of the site and beyond the limit of excavation.
98 Watson Park, Killiney, Co. Dublin
