County: Dublin Site name: STAFFORDSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0831
Author: Patricia Lynch, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 719207m, N 750649m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.492338, -6.203516
A fulacht fiadh with associated burnt-mound material was identified during the monitoring of trial-pits, topsoil-stripping and drainage trenches carried out on the second contract of the Airport–Balbriggan Bypass. The fulacht fiadh consisted of two adjacent troughs and a single hearth. Both troughs and the hearth were filled with heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. A natural slump of subsoil into the first trough indicated a period of non-use of the feature. The base of the hearth contained intensely burnt subsoil.
Editor’s note: Though carried out in 2001, this excavation was not reported on in time for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
27 Hilltown Way, Swords, Co. Dublin
