Fulacht fia in Boolies (kells Upper By., Burry Ed)

Situated at the bottom of an E-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological centre-line testing (04E1053) by G. Mcloughlin (2005) at Testing Area 2 of Contract 5 of the M3 motorway (excavations.ie 2004:1189) identified two spreads of broken and burnt stone that were fully resolved (E003167) by I. Russell in October and November 2006 as Boolies 1 (excavations.ie 2006:1514). This spread of burnt and broken stone (dims 11.5m x 10.5m; max. T 0.24m) was at the S edge of the road-take but very little remained outside it. It overlay a rectangular trough (dims 2m x 1.05m; max. D 0.71m) with steep sides and a flat base and another triangular pit (dims 2.3m x 1.8m; max. D 0.33m). Both the trough and pit were filled with broken and burnt stone in a black matrix. No bones or artefacts were recovered and no date is available. The fulacht fia (ME016-078002-) is c. 10m to the NE. (Russell and Ginn 2008, 2-3) See the attached plan from Russell and Ginn (2008, fig. 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 March 2022