County: Roscommon Site name: Fuerty
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RO039–065 Licence number: 06E0531
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins and Associates, 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: Enclosures and field system
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 582853m, N 762616m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.613102, -8.259123
Outline planning permission for a single house at Fuerty included a condition that the site be subjected to an impact assessment including testing. The site is located within a zone of archaeological potential which comprises a circular enclosure site, the collapsed remains of a stone-walled enclosure – defined on the ground by the grass-covered remains of a tumbled stone wall – a possible former trackway and possible house site identified from aerial photographs, and a field system for which most of the original elements have now been cleared. Five trenches were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching/grading bucket. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.
