Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Meenane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meenane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02101, -8.33373
- SMR number
- CO053-099----
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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
Discovered during archaeological monitoring in advance of the construction of the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass and excavated in 2001. Excavation revealed a roughly U-shaped spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil (11.6m x 7m: max. D 0.2m) which enclosed a central unlined trough (1.45m x 1.1m; D 0.32m). (Sherlock 2003g, 49).
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
- Burnt moundunder 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.