Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Fermoy , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fermoy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11818, -8.27167
- SMR number
- CO035-141----
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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 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass. It consisted of a shallow heavily disturbed mound (c. 15m N-S; 12.5m E-W) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil underneath which was a rectangular trough (2.8m x 2.2m; D 0.6m). The presence of oak fragments in the base of the trough suggests that it may have been timber-lined originally. Two post-holes and a subrectangular pit (0.65m x 0.45m; D 0.2m) were found in close proximity to the trough. The fulacht fia was radiocarbon-dated to cal. BC 384-203 (UB-6834), an early Iron Age date. A second associated circular pit (1.5m x 1.4m; D 0.35m), filled with clay containing burnt stone and charcoal, was located c. 15m to the E of the fulacht fia. (Sutton 2006a, 1-27; 2007e, 58)
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.