Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lisdangan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdangan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulachta Fiadh (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.19706, -9.03799
- SMR number
- CO022-036001-
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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 pasture, c. 20m E of stream. Two adjacent mounds (11347, 11348) shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map. All three levelled; large spread of burnt material incorporates burnt material from each mound. Fourth fulacht fiadh (11349) c. 10m to SE. Bowman (1934,161) recorded a wooden trough found close by...'the planks at the bottom varied from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 ins. in thickness. They were smooth on one side (the upper), and rough hewn on the other'.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.