Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Kishkeam Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kishkeam Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulacht Fiadh (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.18838, -9.16837
- SMR number
- CO021-031----
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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. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (13.6m E-W; 9.8m N-S; H 0.3m); opening (Wth 3.3m) faces SW. North side of mound cut by drain. Possibly the fulacht fiadh recorded by Bowman (1934, 469) on J. Murphy's land ..'a drain was made through this, a trough c. 4ft by 3 by c. 1ft. deep was found. It is said that this was made out of one solid piece of oak'.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.