County: Westmeath Site name: BALLYNAGARBRY (BGE 1B/92/1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0415
Author: Bernice Molloy, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fulachta fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 617511m, N 739395m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.404411, -7.736659
The fulachta fiadh at Ballynagarbry were on the south-facing slope of a steep hill on the margin of a wet, boggy area. The burnt-mound material had been deposited partially over the natural peat. After the mounds went out of use, peat accumulated naturally, partially sealing the burnt mounds. The site is to the north of a land drain, which is likely to be an artificially widened and deepened stream. The location of the site on a slope would also have allowed water to flow naturally downslope into a trough.
The site consisted of six separate spreads of burnt-mound material identified along the line of the pipeline corridor in an area measuring 40m by 15m. It was bounded to the north by the construction haul road and is likely to extend beneath the stockpile and beyond the limits of excavation to the south.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
