County: Mayo Site name: CLOONAWILLIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0987
Author: Sue Zajac, Ballina Civic Offices, Mayo County Council, Dillion Terrace, Ballina, Co. Mayo.
Site type: Fulachta fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 518800m, N 827508m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.190077, -9.244177
Three unrecorded fulachta fiadh were excavated during Phase 2 of the realignment of the N59 west of Crossmolina, Co. Mayo. They were located in close proximity to each other, in a shallow valley beside a stream. The most westerly was seen to be a shallow spread of burnt soil and heat-fractured stone with a wood-lined trough. Two further wood-lined troughs and associated burnt spreads were located beside each other just east of this. One of these troughs had been cut into peat which had preserved the remains of an impressive wicker lining and a complex arrangement of over 50 stakes holding the arrangement of wicker in place. No small finds were associated with any of the areas of fulachta fiadh activity. Radiocarbon dating of wood from the three features revealed dates of 3870, 3530 and 3730 bp.
