Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballinvinny South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvinny South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96774, -8.38191
- SMR number
- CO064-152001-
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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 marshy ground, on the E side of a stream at the base of a steep-sided glen. This fulacht fia was excavated in 2000, in advance of the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass. Prior to excavation, it was described as a high kidney-shaped mound. Removal of the mound revealed a semicircular setting of large heat-fractured stones set on edge, its open end towards the SW which was interpreted as a hearth. A charcoal sample from the hearth returned a calibrated radiocarbon date range of 1681-1460 BC, placing it in the Middle Bronze Age. Another fulacht fia (CO064-152----), c. 30m to the NW on the W side of the stream, was also excavated. (Cotter 2002a, 38-9; 2005c)
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
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.