2015:014 - TULLA, Clare
County: Clare
Site name: TULLA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL035-156
Licence number: 14E0023 ext.
Author: Aidan O'Connell
Author/Organisation Address: 8 Beat Centre, Stephenstown, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Chalcolithic (2500 BC-2201 BC)
ITM: E 548697m, N 679268m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.861875, -8.761866
Excavation of two fulachta fiadh was carried out at the site of a new secondary school on a greenfield site at Tulla Co. Clare. Two phases of geophysical survey and test excavation had been undertaken on site and have resulted in the discovery of the 2 fulachta fiadh. Both sites were excavated; no archaeological artefacts were found in association with either site. Charcoal was recovered from bulk soil samples. A sample of ash charcoal retrieved from the mound material in Area A was dated to 2470–2210 cal. BC making it Early Bronze Age in date (95% probability; SUERC 54902; 3878±36 BP).