Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Monard, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monard
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.94139, -8.49425
- SMR number
- CO063-113----
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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
A spread (min. dims. 15m x 10m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was discovered during monitoring of topsoil stripping along the route of the Caherbeg-Ballincollig Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline and excavated in 1999. Excavation revealed a rectangular straight-sided trough (2.1m E-W; 1.8m N-S; D 0.65m), the base of which sloped slightly down to the N. The trough was filled with a deposit (D 0.15-0.2m) of silt and heat-shattered stones which was in turn sealed by 0.4m of heat-shattered stones and charcoal in a loose soil. No evidence of any lining for the trough was found. A shallow horseshoe-shaped cut (1.85m x 1.25m; D 0.25m) with some possible kerb stones, which lay immediately to the E of the trough was interpreted as the remains of a hearth. Another fulacht fia (CO063-056----) lies c. 180m to the SE. (Coughlan 2000c, 33-4; 2000d)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.