Fulacht fia in Ballygullen (gorey By., Balloughter Ed)

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Ballygullen 4 (Hardy et al. 2010, 43). It is situated on a slight N-facing slope with an ENE-WSW drain c. 40m to the N, and it was completely excavated (E4203) by B. Sutton when an oval trough (dims 2.46m x 1.55m; D 0.4m) with steep sides and a concave base was recorded together with a second oval, steep-sided and flat-bottomed trough (dims 2.4m x 1.84m; D 0.51m) that was just 2m to the NE. There were also two pits (dims 1.6m x 1.4m; D 0.2m: 1.1m x 0.7m; D 0.12m) 4m to the SE and 6m to the ESE respectively of the second trough. These features were under deposits of burnt mound material (dims 2m x 1.5m; T 0.03m: 0.5m x 0.4m; T 0.14m: 0.5m x 0.3m; T 0.05m: 1.8m x 1.7m; T 0.1m) that had been truncated by modern drains, from which came the only artefact recovered, which was a post-medieval billhook. A sample from a secondary fill of the NE trough produced a C14 date of cal. BC 1300-1058 BC. The fulacht fia (WX011-072----) is c. 65m to the NE, and the prehistoric habitation (WX011-073----) is c. 200m to the S. (McAuliffe and Ruttle 2012; Sutton 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of uplaod: 26 November, 2013