Fulacht fia in Moyne Middle

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Moyne Middle 4 (Hardy et al. 2010, 117-8). It is situated on a NW-facing slope with a small canalised NE-SW stream c. 20m to the NW. It was completely excavated (E4209) by Y. Whitty when a rectangular trough (dims 2.64m NW-SE; 1.8m NE-SW; D 0.5-0.75m) was uncovered. It had a flat bottom that sloped down to the SE and a step cut in the SE side. The trough cut a pit (dims 1.6m x 1.4m; D 0.2m) on its SW side, but there was no stratigraphic relationship with two other pits (dims 3.3m N-S; 1.2m E-W; D 0.22m: 1.13m x 1.02m; D 0.33-0.4m) that were 4.1m SE and 1.5m NW of the trough. A small spread of burnt stone material (dims 3.4m N-S; 1.7m E-W; max. T 0.3m) covered the pit NW of the trough. The burnt mound (WX020-090----) is c. 50m to the SW and the fulacht fia (WX020-092----) is c. 35m to the NE. (Hardy 2012; Whitty 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013