Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Coolanarney, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolanarney
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO038-097----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Broker (1937, 14) recorded a fulacht fiadh on Denis Noonan's land 'in bog, 13 feet or sods down. 20 feet diameter: dug out, not removed: 2 feet high, depth unknown. Equally deep and beside it was space 14 x 14 feet planked. Real planks split or dressed with hatchet: like bog deal: destroyed about 1897. In 1892, beside planking but not so deep was found, scooped tree....nice little trough - 9 inches deep'. Exact location not known. One of three fulachta fiadh on same farm (see CO038-092---; CO038-127---).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009