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Fulacht fia

Stag Park, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Stag Park, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Stag Park
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.25440, -8.28956
SMR number
CO019-168----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This fulacht fia was excavated in 2004 in advance of the construction of the N8 Mitchelstown relief road. It consisted of a low mound (19.2m x 15.4m; H c. 0.2m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. Beneath the N end of the mound a rectangular trough (2.02m x 1.45m; D 0.65m) was found. Eight stake-holes found in the corners of the trough suggest that it was timber-lined originally. A pit (4.15m x 1.45m; D 0.57m) surrounded by 25 stake-holes and three post-holes was found to the S of the trough. It contained no burnt stones suggesting that it had been infilled prior to the build up of the mound. The NW end of the pit was truncated by a second pit (1.9m x 1.55m; D 0.35m). This fulacht fia was radiocarbon-dated to the early Bronze Age (cal. BC 2122-1828 (UB-6718)). A second fulacht fia (CO019-169----) which lay 5m to the NW was also excavated. (Sutton 2006c, 1-48; 2007d, 69)

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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