Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Oldcastle, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcastle
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95370, -8.76891
- SMR number
- CO061-101----
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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 tillage. Described by Hartnett (1939, 274) as 'an oblong pile of turf-covered blackened stones' (35ft N-S; 25ft E-W). 'It rises to a height of 6ft at the centre and tails off to a few inches at the edges' (ibid.). Hartnett was informed that it was regarded locally as 'an old pagan burial ground' (ibid.), though it contained 'black humified earth, mixed with brittle burned stone of the type usually found in a Fulacht Fiadh' (PJH). No visible surface trace.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 61/1938).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.