Burnt spread in Scattery Island

Identified in section, in a low cliff face on the SE foreshore of Scattery Island during an assessment in 2001 in advance of conservation works to facilitate visitors to the island. A layer of angular, heat-shattered stone (D 0.12m; stones av. 0.06m x 0.04m) was evident overlying a possible linear trackway extending NW-SE (Wth 3.85m; D 0.3m). The linear extent of the feature is unknown as it extended into the cliff face. The stone may have been obtained from a nearby fulacht fia and reused as metalling over a peat layer in order to solidify the soft ground. (Dunne and Ryan 2001, 10-11) This is a national monument in state care, no. 10. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 September 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1971).