Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Coolowen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolowen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulachta Fiadh (1937)
- Coordinates
- 51.96340, -8.55456
- SMR number
- CO062-074001-
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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
Partially overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 19m; Wth 19m; H 0.6m) in marshy ground. Second fulacht fiadh (CO062-074002-) c. 20m to S. (Walsh 1985, 67, 102)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.