Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knocknashannagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknashannagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11982, -9.16415
- SMR number
- CO029-047----
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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 marshy ground. Overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (15m N-S; 11m E-W; H 1.9m); opening (Wth 6m) faces SE. According to local information, trough, composed of oak planks, measuring roughly '5ft long by 18in wide and 2-3in thick', was exposed in the past by digging. Trough area remains visible as depression with timbers partly exposed. Well in opening now dried up. Recorded by Broker (1937, 17). Second fulacht fiadh (11425) c. 150m to SW.
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.