Fulacht fia in Ramstown Lower

Archaeological testing (12E0306) in an area of c. 7 ha (c. 18acres) c. 250m WSW of the core of Gorey town (WX007-033----) identified and excavated two fulachta fia, three burnt mounds, a pit and a corn-drying kiln. This large fulacht fia (dims 14m ENE-WSW; 11m NNW-SSE; max. T 0.45m) in Area D was on the S side of a small E-W stream or drain and c. 23m WSW of the fulacht fia (WX007-085002-) and 5m ENE of the burnt mound material (WX007-085006-). The mound sealed a large, sub-circular trough (dims 2.28m N-S; 1.97m E-W; max. D 0.43m) filled largely with burnt stone. The trough was cut by a smaller, circular pit, which also contained a high degree of stone. There were four stake-holes just S of the trough, and hazel from one of them produced a C14 date of 1010-834 Cal. BC. (Bailey 2013, 9, 10) See this web-paged accessed on 18 September, 2015. http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Wexford/0023614/ Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 September, 2015