County: Mayo Site name: BALLINLABAUN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0381
Author: Suzanne Zajac, Mayo County Council
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 510315m, N 816932m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.093662, -9.371010
Topsoil-stripping during realignment of the N59 west of Crossmolina uncovered a spread of burnt soil and heat-fractured stone. A rescue excavation was carried out and the base timbers of a wooden trough were found set in natural subsoil. The trough lay adjacent to a stream in low-lying reclaimed pasture. The burnt material was thinly distributed around the trough for a radius of c. 5m. No small finds were associated with the site. It was identified as the remains of a fulacht fiadh that had been levelled, probably during land reclamation.
Civic Offices, Ballina, Co. Mayo
