Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Scartbarry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scartbarry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.03850, -8.31675
- SMR number
- CO053-109----
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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
This fulacht fia, which had been truncated by machinery, was located to the S of a watercourse and was excavated in 2004/5 in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass. It consisted of a mound (9m N-S; 8m E-W; D 0.3m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil beneath which was a rectangular timber-lined trough (2.22m x 1.36m; D 0.38m). Some of the timbers retrieved from the trough displayed evidence of burning. Three stake-holes were found in the base of the trough, 17 stake-holes and a possible post-hole were located at the E corner of the trough and a further four stake-holes were found at the N corner of the trough. The E portion of a possible pit was also found, 0.6m SW of the trough and a dried-up or back-filled watercourse was recorded to the N of the mound. This fulacht fia was radiocarbon-dated to the late Bronze Age (cal. BC 811-548 (UB-6778); cal. BC 789-419 (UB-6779). (Tierney and Johnston 2006, 1-42; Dunne 2007b, 68)
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
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.