Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Stag Park, County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.