2016:510 - AGHADRINAGH (6-7), Mayo

The remains of a small disturbed fulacht fiadh (F001) was identified at Aghadrinagh 6 at the edge of a natural paleo-channel (F012) which extended north-eastwards into Aghadrinagh 7. The burnt mound had been disturbed by a number of post-medieval cultivation furrows (F013) and by a number of non-archaeological deposits/features (F002-F005), possibly tree boles or root action. The burnt spread (F001) measured 8.2m in length, 7.8m in width and 0.3m in thickness and consisted of a loose dark brown–black silty clay containing heat-shattered stone and lay above a layer of natural dark brown peaty clay (F012) and the natural orange marl (F011). One irregularly shaped trough (F006) was filled by F007–F008, a loose black silty clay and charcoal, and separated by a possible vertical division of unburnt stones (F009). This suggests that the trough may have had two phases, the first represented by F010 & F008 and the second represented by F009 and F007.