County: Cork Site name: FERMOY WOOD, Fermoy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1014
Author: Bruce Sutton, for Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 581395m, N 596289m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.118179, -8.271664
Monitoring took place within previously untested or unresolved locations along the route of the new N8 Rathcormac/Fermoy bypass between June 2004 and January 2005. These works were both within and outside of the extents of the CPO and were initially monitored by Laurence Dunne under licence 04E0948 (see No. 256, Excavations 2004). However, with the introduction of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act in the summer of 2004, the remaining archaeological investigations within the road-take took place under ministerial direction.
During the course of monitoring within the CPO line for the road-take, a fulacht fiadh was uncovered. The mound was heavily disturbed by forestry and machinery and measured roughly 13m by 12m. Excavation of the shallow mound revealed a rectangular trough 2.8m by 2.2m and 0.6m deep. Two post-holes and two shallow pits were also excavated. No finds were recovered from any of the excavated features. The fulacht fiadh was 390m to the north of a potential brushwood trackway or platform in Ballyoran Bog, excavated by John Tierney (No. 262, Excavations 2004).
Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork
