County: Mayo Site name: Laghtabawannagh/Belleek/Knocklehaug
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0195
Author: Sue Zajac, Ballina Civic Offices, Mayo County Council, Dillion Terrace, Ballina, Co. Mayo
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 520515m, N 793171m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.881870, -9.208930
Monitoring of the Ballina main drainage scheme within a greenfield area in the environs of Ballina town uncovered three separate areas of fulacht fiadh activity within a confined area in Farrannoo townland. The remains were a small pit, a wood-lined trough, a boiling pit and post-holes, all found in association with disturbed deposits of heat-fractured stone and charcoal. A retouched chert blade, struck debitage and a hammerstone were found, together with a pocket of animal bone beside the wood-lined trough.
