What is recorded here

Fulacht fia in Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed) is a fulacht fia in Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. The feature is a 3.6m long dome of loose blackened soil, 0.7m deep, dense with heat-shattered stone and reddened burnt soil. It lay beneath 1.6m of redeposited peat when road works exposed it in 1998. The site is one of six in a wetland cluster on the west side of the N4 realignment route.

In a wetland area, on the W side of a road. One of a cluster of six sites (SL040-030002-; SL040-031002-; SL040-031003-; SL040-230001-; SL040-230002-) found during monitoring of the realignment of the N4 road from Hollybrook Estate to Castlebaldwin in the Summer of 1998 (Desmond 1998, 10). This possible fulacht fia was revealed in section by machinery under a layer of recently redeposited peat (D 1.6m). It measured 3.6m in length, had a domed profiled and consisted of loose blackened soil (D 0.7m) with a high concentration of heat-shattered stone with area of reddened burnt soil also containing heat cracked stones and small pebbles. Some of the mound material had been removed by machinery prior to inspection. Following recording the site was covered with geo-textile, peat and topsoil and remains undisturbed. Another possible fulacht fia (SL040-030002-) lies c. 4m to W; a possible enclosure (SL040-030001-) lies c. 50m to N. (Desmond 2000, 183-4) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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