2020:326 - CLONMINCH, Tullamore, Offaly
County: Offaly
Site name: CLONMINCH, Tullamore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 20E0343
Author: Liam Coen c/o Archer Heritage
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 8 Beat Centre, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 634898m, N 723333m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.259200, -7.476966
A total of 9 test trenches were excavated within the site with some minor alterations to the agreed Method Statement layout to preserve standing crop. A single archaeological site was recorded consisting of a thin spread of charcoal-enriched silty clay with frequent burnt stone inclusions. This was a ploughed-out fulacht fiadh (burnt spread). Within the tested area it had overall dimensions of 7m north-south x 9m.