Fulacht fia in Grig — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Two fulachta fia, one from the Late Bronze Age and one from AD 980-1160, share the same hollow between drumlins at Grig 1. People may have heated water, cooked food, cleaned tools or gathered beside steam long before the road works exposed the troughs. The place records repeated human use across centuries rather than a single event.

Situated in a hollow between drumlins. An archaeological excavation (05E0784) carried out as part of the N2 Castleblayney-Clontibret road realignment scheme at a site known as Grig 1 uncovered a rectangular trough (dims 1.5m x 1.25m; D 0.45m) and a sub-circular (dims 1.5m x 1.25m; D 0.25m) trough placed c. 10m apart, the former beneath a small spread of burnt mound material, the latter under a larger spread (dims 6.4m x 5.8m; T 0.2m). A fragment of charcoal from the subcircular trough produces a C14 date of 1000+-30 BP that calibrates to AD 980-1160. A sample from the other trough (MO019-050001-), located c. 10m to the SE produced a date in the Late Bronze Age. It is probable that two fulachta fia, widely separated in time, are represented here, each being matched by a trough of a similar time period from the two fulachta fia (MO019-049----; MO018-049001-) located c. 130m to the N. (Halpin B. 2008; 2010, 6, 11,V) Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 22 June 2018

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