County: Limerick Site name: BALLYVOLLANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1348
Author: Avril Hayes, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 563758m, N 658943m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.680433, -8.535965
The site, at Ballyvollane, Stradbally, was uncovered and excavated during monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Clareville to Newcastle rising main. The fulacht fiadh survived as a low mound of burnt stone in a charcoal-rich soil matrix. It lay in a low-lying marshy area close to a stream. The deposit was roughly circular, 10m in diameter, and 0.5m at its deepest. There was no obvious trough under the deposit, but a roughly circular cut lay under the south-west quadrant of the fulacht material. It was filled with burnt material. The burnt material overlay an undulating, grey, clay subsoil. No finds were recovered.
16 Avondale Court, Corbally, Limerick
