County: Laois Site name: OLDGLASS (2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A015/107, E2216
Author: Tara O’Neill, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 634642m, N 678821m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.859193, -7.485587
This site was excavated in April 2006 as part of the programme of resolution of archaeological sites on the route of the proposed M7 Portlaoise to Castletown/M8 Portlaoise to Cullahill motorway scheme. The work was carried out on behalf of Laois County Council and the National Roads Authority.
It comprised one fulacht fiadh and a spread of burnt material located c. 50m apart. Area 1 comprised of a thin spread of burnt-mound material measuring 2.42m by 2.68m by 0.08m in depth. There were no other associated features.
Area 2 comprised a trough and four associated burnt spreads. The oval trough measured 1.8m by 1.22m by 0.64m in depth. It was filled with layers of silt, sand and charcoal-rich deposits. The thin burnt-stone spreads were in all probability one spread, but intensive agricultural activity and modern disturbance had truncated much of it.
Samples from this site are currently undergoing analysis.
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