Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Raheen (barrymore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen (barrymore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.08163, -8.38412
- SMR number
- CO044-003----
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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 scrubland on E foothills of Nagles Mountains and c. 200m NE of fulacht fiadh (CO044-002---). Heavily overgrown mound of burnt material. Possibly this is site mentioned by Power (1923, 191) as 'small name-giving (Raheen) lios which stands in mountain surrounding [and] is now nearly destroyed'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Enclosure1 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.