2004:1676 - GLENCOVE: Cove Lane, Waterford
County: Waterford
Site name: GLENCOVE: Cove Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 04E0173
Author: Brendon Wilkins, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 4B, Europa Enterprise Park, Midleton, Co. Cork
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 662486m, N 611253m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.249446, -7.084880
Testing carried out in advance of the construction of two apartment blocks identified the presence of a fulacht fiadh adjacent to the east side of the present driveway. Full resolution determined its extent as 15m by 10m, with a maximum depth of 1m. Two troughs and one hearth were identified beneath the mound material located within 5m of each other. Despite heavy truncation by modern sewerage drains, the volume of burnt stone and charcoal material contained in the mound together with the presence of more than one trough suggest that the fulacht fiadh was intensively used for a long period of time.