What is recorded here

Fulacht fia in Lisroyne is a fulacht fia in Lisroyne, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits on a slope overlooking Lough Lea inside an enclosure attached to a rath. Derek Gallagher excavated the site before development began. The work revealed an irregular burnt mound above four pits and a subrectangular trough with post-holes at its rounded corners.

Situated on a NW-facing slope overlooking Lough Lea c. 200m to the NW. It is within the enclosure (RO023-165001-) attached to rath (RO023-165----). It was excavated (10E0328) by Derek Gallagher in advance of development (Ó Séaghdha 2010; Gallagher 2013). The burnt mound was an irregular shape (diam. c. 9m; T 0.3m) and overlay four pits and a subrectangular trough (dims 2.2m x 1.9m; D 0.25m) which had post-holes at the rounded corners. There were over 50 stake-holes, about half of which were in a re-cut on the E side of the trough. A sample from a post-hole produced a calibrated C14 date of 1259-1002 cal. BC (Bermingham and Ó Séaghdha 2012, 5). The burnt mound material also overlay a well (RO023-165003-) at its W edge and c. 4m W of the trough, but the well is unrelated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27th January 2011

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