County: Kerry Site name: CAHERAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE040-112 Licence number: 03E0218
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 500842m, N 607205m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.207687, -9.450832
Twenty trenches were dug by machine over Fields 1 and 2 in advance of the construction of a quarry at Caheragh, Castleisland. The development is located within the zones of archaeological potential for SMR 40:78, a ringfort, 40:79, another ringfort, and 40:112, a possible fulacht fiadh. Two fulachta fiadh were discovered during the testing, one in each field. SMR 40:112 in Field 2 was already noted in the RMP. It appears to have been marked in the wrong location and is likely to be the one identified during testing in Field 2. This was a circular mound of fire-cracked stone, 10m in diameter and 1m in maximum height. The fulacht fiadh in Field 1 was previously unrecorded. It revealed itself as a spread of firecracked stone, 14m in diameter and 0.4m in height, and appeared to have been partially levelled.
A metal-detection survey was also undertaken onsite under licence number 03R026. No artefacts or archaeological material were encountered (see No. 768, Excavations 2003).
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