2006:255 - Kells Road, Mullagh, Clare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Clare Site name: Kells Road, Mullagh

Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0897

Author: Stephen J. Linnane, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.

Site type: Burnt-stone spreads

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 669586m, N 784915m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.809114, -6.943462

During the course of test-trenching in advance of a housing development, four small spreads of burnt stone were identified. No pits or troughs were noted, but it seems likely that the spreads indicated the presence of a fulacht fiadh (probably prehistoric) within the vicinity of the development.