County: Wicklow Site name: KILTIMON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0605
Author: Ruairí Ó Baoill and Yvonne McQuaid, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 727820m, N 702929m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.061698, -6.092975
As part of continuing investigations along the proposed route of the N11 Newtownmountkennedy– Ballynabarny Road Scheme, testing at Kiltimon, Co. Wicklow, was carried out by Eoin Halpin in October 2001 (Excavations 2001, No. 1374, 01E0972). The investigation uncovered a small mound of charcoal-rich soil and burnt stone, 10m in diameter and c. 0.2m high, identifying the site as a probable fulacht fiadh. As the site lay directly in the line of the proposed N11 Improvement Scheme, full excavation was necessary before construction.
Complete excavation of the site was carried out from 8 to 28 May 2002. Investigations confirmed the site to be a fulacht fiadh. A stone hearth and cooking platform were uncovered beneath the layers of burnt stone related to the activity carried out at the site, but no cooking trough was found within the site limits. A series of post-holes, some containing in situ timbers, attested to other activities on the site. However, no artefacts were uncovered from the excavation to help determine the period of its usage.
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