Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Coolageela West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolageela West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulacht Fiadh (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.22406, -8.89677
- SMR number
- CO015-091----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough grazing, c. 85m S of stream. Undulating grass-covered area (c. 14m E-W) containing mounds of burnt material (max. H 0.6m), and intervening waterlogged depressions. Second fulacht fiadh (10544) c. 200m to NE. Probably one of ten fulachta fiadh (see 10547) recorded in townland by Bowman (1934, 397-8).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.