Fulacht fia in Cronykeery

Slight traces of the presence of a fulacht fiadh were revealed in the southern part of the townland of Cronykeery, Co. Wicklow, in May 2001, during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook- Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. Small spreads of heat-shattered stone and charcoal were observed in low-lying ground some 3m north of an unnamed stream. Hand-cleaning found several small, thin spreads of charcoal and heat-shattered stones. Two small pits were also identified which were filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal. These pits measured on average 0.5m by 0.5m with a depth of 0.17-0.2m, and were generally too small to have functioned as troughs. It was concluded that the material identified was perhaps peripheral to a larger fulacht fiadh outside the way-leave of the gas pipeline (Bennett 2003, 417). Date of upload: 23 October 2012