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
- 52.00037, -8.34725
- SMR number
- CO053-092003-
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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 reclaimed pasture, c. 30m 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 an irregular mound (6m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.45m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. Excavation revealed an approximately rectangular mound (6m E-W; 4m N-S; D 0.2m) of heat-shattered stones cut through by a modern N-S field drain. Apart from one side of a feature, possibly a trough, near the NE corner of the excavated area, no other archaeological features were found. The feature was truncated by modern land-drainage works. Two other fulachtaí fia (CO053-092001-, CO053-092002-) lie c. 40m and c. 30m to the SW, respectively. (Cotter 2000d, 1-8; 2000e, 33, site C)
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.