What is recorded here

Not shown is a dormant fulacht fia beside Roche Castle in County Limerick. It still stands as a low irregular rise near the castle avenue, waiting for the heat, water and people who once animated it.

One of a group of six fulachtaí fia (LI013-229-/230/231/232/233/234----). This unexcavated fulacht fia (Site E) was discovered by Noel Dunne during archaeological monitoring under licence No. 98E0433 of a dual carriageway constructed as part of the Dell Factory Development, County Limerick (Dunne 2000, 159). The results of the discovery were summarised as following; ‘The factory construction site is on the demesne of Roche Castle an early 19th-century house. Most of the features encountered in the monitoring of groundworks (Phase 2) relate to farming activity associated with the house. However, to the southwest of the site a fulacht fiadh was uncovered in tduring fieldwalking in the course of the present development, immediately to the SW of the main avenue to Roche Castle. The site is evident as a low, irregular rise abutting the SW boundary wall of the avenue. The rise measures 15.5m NW-SE by 8m NE-SW and 30 to 50 cm high. The feature possibly represents the surviving SW edge of a fulacht fiadh mound’ (Dunne 1998, 30). See attached location map taken from excavation report Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 2 July 2020

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