County: Dublin Site name: Folkstown Great, Area 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0055
Author: Gill McLoughlin, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Burnt-mound site
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 718725m, N 762820m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.601764, -6.206156
The excavation of Folkstown Great, Area 1, took place on 8–22 February 2008 on the route of the Balbriggan Outer Relief Road, Phase 5. The remains of a burnt mound were identified at the site during testing carried out by Fintan Walsh (Excavations 2007, No. 445, 07E0836).
The deposit of burnt-mound material consisted of black silty clay and heat-affected stones with charcoal. It measured 8.5m by 13m by 0.4m and sealed a large waterhole, two troughs and a small pit. The troughs were roughly subrectangular and had no trace of any lining. One additional small pit and one shallow rectangular trough also lay outside of the burnt-mound deposit.
