Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Mitchellsfort, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchellsfort
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.00014, -8.34777
- SMR number
- CO053-092001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, c. 18m E of a stream. This fulacht fia was excavated in 1999 in advance of the construction of the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass. Prior to excavation, it consisted of a low grass-covered mound (c. 8m N-S; c. 8m E-W; H 0.5m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. Excavation revealed an oval mound (4m E-W; c. 3m N-S; H 0.56m) of heat-shattered stones with two spreads of heat-shattered stones mixed with soil extending to the NE and W of the mound. The two spreads are likely to have been the result of disturbance of the mound by machinery. An oval pit (2m x 1.5m; D 0.25m) filled with burnt stone lay c. 2.5m NE of the mound. A rectangular pit (1.5m x 1.5m; D 0.38m), also filled with burnt stones and including a quantity of white clay which may have formed a lining, lay 6m to the SE of the oval pit. Two other fulachtaí fia (CO053-092002-, CO053-092003-) lay c. 15m and c. 45m to the NE, respectively. (Cotter 2000d, 1-8; 2000e, 33, site A)
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.