Fulacht fia in Bockagh

Situated towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope. Identified in centre-line testing (10E0298) in Area 4 of the N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass and was set aside for further work as a part of Bockagh 4. (Janes and Delaney 2010a, 9) Subsequently it was fully excavated (10E0379) which revealed that an oval trough (dims 2.74m x 1.74m; D 0.64) was cut through peat into the silty clay subsoil, with timbers lining the sides and floor that were almost exclusively alder. A sample of hazel produced a C14 date of 1041-911 cal. BC. These features were covered by a horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt stone (diam. c. 10; T 0.25m), which is earlier than that of the fulacht fia (RO008-073001-) c. 10m to the NNW. (Kyle and Delaney 2011g) Fulacht fia (RO008-073003-) is c. 5m to the SW and (RO008-073001-) is c. 10m to the NNW. Further afield there are three fulachta fia (RO008-072001-; RO008-072002-; RO008-072003-) c. 80m to the WNW, and the possible hearth (RO008-074----) is c. 80m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 February, 2012