County: Laois Site name: CORRAUN (3)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A015/128, E2237
Author: Ed Danaher, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 632033m, N 684897m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.913959, -7.523721
This site was located within Contract 2 of the proposed M7 Portlaoise to Castletown/M8 Portlaoise to Cullahill motorway scheme and was identified during advance testing by Robert O’Hara (Excavations 2005, No. 859, A015/029). Full resolution occurred in April 2006. Corraun 3 comprised the remnants of a fulacht fiadh consisting of a mid-sized spread of burnt-mound material and four associated cut features, one of which may have functioned as a trough. No artefacts were found in association with any of the features/deposits exposed on site. Soil, charcoal, burnt stone and animal-bone samples currently await analysis.
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