County: Limerick Site name: CLOGH WEST (BGE 3/59/3)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1436
Author: Graham Hull, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 539012m, N 644227m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.545965, -8.899169
This site was examined as part of Bord Gáis Éireann’s Pipeline to the West. A single shallow depression, roughly oval, measuring 1.38m (north-east/south-west) by 0.95m by 0.1m deep, was excavated. The sides sloped gently down to a roughly flat base. The shallow and uneven form of the depression suggested a natural hollow that had been filled with the remnants of a larger spread. The deposit found in the depression was typical fulacht fiadh material: burnt and fire-cracked stone with frequent charcoal fragments.
This discrete deposit of fulacht material may have been one of the ‘few shovel-fulls of burned material, well trodden into the ground, and difficult to identify’ noted by Coffey (1984).
Reference
Coffey, T. 1984 Fulachta fiadha in the Burren. The Other Clare 8, 60–3.
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