County: Westmeath Site name: KILBALRAHERD (BGE 1B/76/1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0624
Author: Bernice Molloy, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 633651m, N 741967m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.426737, -7.493664
The site was on undulating, low-lying, pastureland on a gradual west-facing slope. There was a rise to the east, and the site was in a low valley. A land drain c. 30m to the west appeared to be an artificially widened and deepened streambed.
Topsoil-stripping exposed a large L-shaped mound. The mound appeared to have been levelled and slightly truncated but remained mostly intact. Three phases of activity were identified during excavation. The first consisted of features cutting natural subsoil and sealed by the mound. Two troughs and several pits and post-holes were exposed beneath the mound. Phase II consisted of burnt-mound material sealing the cut features. The mound itself was very large and consisted of several well-stratified deposits of burnt stone. It measured 18.32m north–south by 12.48m. It was 0.2m deep at the periphery, increasing gradually to 0.64m deep toward the centre. Phase III post-dated the mound and was likely to be modern.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
