County: Tipperary Site name: Ballyard
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002310
Author: Patricia Long, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1 Wallingstown Business Park. Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 571816m, N 661822m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.706791, -8.417045
Archaeological investigations in advance of the N7 Nenagh to Limerick high-quality dual carriageway road project took place at Ballyard between 13 and 26 September 2006. Excavations revealed a fulacht fiadh consisting of a shallow mound measuring 7.8m long by 7.1m wide and up to 0.33m deep. The mound was found to be overlying a rectangular trough, which had evidence of a wood-lined base and measured 1.22m wide by 1m long and 0.49m deep. An associated metalled surface measuring 4.3m long by 3.56m wide was found close to this trough. A pit measuring 0.92m long by 0.73m wide and 0.31m deep truncated the wood-lined trough, and may itself have functioned as a trough during a second phase of activity. No finds were recovered from this excavation.
Editor’s note: Although excavated during 2006, the report on this site arrived too late for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
