Fulacht fia in Readsland

Situated on a slight S-facing slope with a small silted hollow, probably a silted pond, just to the SE. Archaeological monitoring (15E0125) by S. McGlade in Phase 1 of the archaeological mitigation connected with a housing development identified a number of pits in a confined area (excavations.ie 2018: 032). These are the remnants of a fulacht fia and all the features were excavated under the original licence by the same archaeologist as the W fulacht fia. A rectangular trough (dims 1.2m x 0.9m; D 0.2m) with fairly steep sides has six stakeholes and a post-hole in the base. These indicate that the base was probably lined with wood. It had two original fills that might have been partly cleared out at N where a layer of broken and burnt stone, the last remnant of the mound, survived but there were no other features. (McGlade 2020, vol. 1, 44-5) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 December 2021