County: Tipperary Site name: Coolderry
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002318
Author: Patricia Long, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1 Wallingstown Business Park. Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 571358m, N 667227m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.755343, -8.424291
Archaeological investigations in advance of the N7 Nenagh to Limerick high-quality dual carriageway road project took place at E2318, Coolderry, between 19 and 29 September 2006. Excavations revealed an oval arrangement of pits/troughs filled with burnt-mound material as well as a number of associated spreads of burnt-mound material. The site was located near a natural stone outcrop in a boggy area, though the site itself was not waterlogged. Modern drainage may have contributed to this. At least three of the pits seemed to have functioned as troughs. One of these was located in the centre of the oval arrangement of pits. It was oval in plan and measured 2.8m long by 1.35m wide and 0.36m deep. The other two troughs were within the oval arrangement of features; they were both oval in plan and measured 3.3m long by 1.32m wide by 0.6m deep and 1.7m long by 1.29m wide by 0.18m deep respectively. The remaining features in the oval arrangement consisted of four pits, irregular in shape and between 0.2m and 0.25m deep, as well as two shallower elongated features. 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.
