What is recorded here

No new quarter should obscure the old quarter or deny the facts already written.

On a gentle SSW-facing slope, in pasture, on the N side of Schoolhouse Road, Castletroy. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Flor Hurley in 2003 during monitoring (Licence No. 03E1382) for a housing scheme known as Glantan and excavated (License No. 03E1717) by Niamh O’Callaghan later in 2003. In Area 7, the remains of a fulachta fiadh (FF3) were found as a result of this excavation of fulacht fiadh (FF2) (LI005-088010-). It comprised of a smaller black silty spread containing heat-shattered stone (O'Callaghan 2006, 309). See attached plan extract from monitoring report (Hurley 2003). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 1 July 2020

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