Fulacht fia in Woodstown (middlethird By., Killoteran Par.)

Located on a slight W-facing slope. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0763) in test area 42 by Ian Russell of Archaeological Consultancy Services in preparation for the Alternate Route 2 of the N25 Waterford City bypass (Russell 2008). It was subsequently excavated (E3436) by Anne-Marie Lennon during 2007 as Woodstown 10. An area of burnt stones (diam. 19-22m; max. T 0.3m) overlay three troughs. A rectangular trough (dims. 2.6m x 1.9m; D 0.2m) was cut through by a smaller trough (dims. 1.9m x 1m; D 0.3m) while the third rectangular trough (1.8m x 1.25m; D 0.65m) was c. 5m to the S. There were also a number of pits and stakeholes. (Lennon 2010; O'Hara and Ginn 2011f) Lennon, A-M. (2010) Woodstown 10. Burnt mound activity. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 526, No. 1865. Wordwell. Dublin. O’Hara, R. and V. Ginn (2011f) Woodstown 10, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 1, 75-7. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin Russell, I. (2008) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 August 2010