Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyduane West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyduane West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulacht Fiadh (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.20897, -9.04839
- SMR number
- CO022-028----
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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. Irregular fulacht fiadh consisting of roughly oval mound of burnt material (11.5m N-S; 7.3m E-W; H 1.1m) with central depression (c. 2.2m N-S; c. 1.45m E-W; D c. 0.3m). Smaller elongated mound of burnt material to NW, connected to main mound by narrow 'bank' of burnt material. Probably one of two fulachta fiadh (see 10274) recorded in townland by Bowman (1934, 159), one on J. Reen's land, one on M. Quinn's.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.