County: Westmeath Site name: TULLANISKEY(1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A006/008, E3319
Author: John Channing, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 644346m, N 749690m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.495349, -7.331668
A site was identified as a possible fulacht fiadh during testing (Tierney and Elder 2004, A007/008) conducted in advance of the N52 Mullingar–Belvedere road realignment scheme south of Mullingar on behalf of Westmeath County Council and the NRA. Excavation in September 2005 revealed a mixed deposit of heat-shattered limestone and peat. The lack of heated sandstone, significant amounts of charcoal and any form of a heat source or pit combined to reduce to probability that the deposit represented a fulacht fiadh-type monument. The site was located on the edge of a laneway leading to 18th-century agri-industrial buildings.
Editor’s note: Although this licence was issued during 2005, the report on the work was not received in time for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
Brehon House, Kilkenny Road, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
