County: Wexford Site name: Knockeen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0069 ext.
Author: Ciara MacManus, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Belfast), East Belfast Enterprise, 308 Albertbridge Road, BT5 4GX.
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 697475m, N 623163m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.351385, -6.569168
Monitoring by Catherine McLoughlin (see No. 2132 above) of topsoil-stripping along the route of an access road to a proposed landfill development within the townland of Knockeen, Co. Wexford, identified the remains of a ploughed-out fulacht fiadh in the form of a large irregular spread of charcoal-rich soil and burnt and heat-shattered stones.
Excavation of the spread revealed the existence of two areas of archaeological activity. Area 1, located within the southern end of the site, contained the remains of two large subsoil-cut pits or troughs, around which numerous stake-holes were excavated, with at least one windbreak structure easily identified to the south-east of one of these pits. Area 2, located 18m to the north, contained a third subsoil-cut trough surrounded by two large tree root boles and a number of shallow pits.
