Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Aughinida, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughinida
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.93788, -8.91312
- SMR number
- CO060-209----
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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 was discovered during topsoil stripping in advance of the construction of an ESB substation and was excavated in 2000. Prior to excavation it was described as a slightly raised grass-covered oval mound (c. 40m SE-NW; 10.4m NW-SE) with gorse buses growing on it. Excavation revealed that the mound (max. H 0.5m) consisted of two main deposits of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. A stone-lined trough (1.8m N-S; 1.6m E-W; D 0.4m) was revealed at the W edge of the mound. An arc of stake-holes, open to the N, was also found to the E of the trough. A circular pit (1.6m E-W; 1.2m N-S; D 0.45m) filled with clay with frequent inclusions of fire-cracked stones was found to the N of the mound. (Larsson 2004, 54)
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.