TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Fulacht fia

Meenane, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Meenane, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Meenane
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.02017, -8.33342
SMR number
CO053-095----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a gentle NE-facing slope on the W edge of a boggy area. 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 irregularly shaped grass-covered mound (15m N-S; 14m E-W; max. H 0.5m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil, bounded to the SW by a field boundary. Excavation revealed a rectangular unlined trough (2.1m E-W; 1.3m N-S; D 0.3m). The hearth was on a horseshoe-shaped shelf immediately to the W of the trough. A setting of post-holes to the N and S of the trough was interpreted as evidence of a structure either enclosing the N end of the trough or forming part of the hearth. A large roughly oval pit (2.9m N-S; 2.2m E-W; D 0.6m) of uncertain function was found 1.6m E of the trough. There is a stream c. 100m to the NE. (Cotter 2000b, 32; 2000c, 1-7)

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Fulacht fia in Cork All County Cork records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map