What is recorded here

Excavation is a buried hearth in County Limerick, dug during the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline work in 1986. It lies near a fulacht fiadh, ringfort and moated site, yet no object or marker survived the digging. The ground keeps its ordinary shape, holding a small fire that someone lit, forgot or never intended to remember.

In pasture 200m E of the townland boundary with Ballynagoul and 10m W of a stream. Excavated fulacht fiadh (LI047-062001-) lies 5m to NE, ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 100m to SE and moated site (LI047- 064---) 150m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Hearth excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/5/5 (Gowen 1988, 179). According to Gowen; ‘The remains may represent a relatively modern hearth. There were no finds and no inclusions in the pit fill’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 August 2021

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