Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Corkbeg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corkbeg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.81604, -8.24921
- SMR number
- CO088-123----
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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
At the interface between a low-lying marshy area and pasture, at the break of slope of a N-facing ridge. A shallow irregular spread (12.5m E-W; 10m N-S; D 0.02-0.03m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was discovered in 2007 during archaeological testing in advance of the construction of a gas-fired electricity generating station at Whitegate oil refinery (Purcell 2007). Excavation revealed that the burnt material covered a small hearth and a rectangular unlined trough cut into outcropping shale and sandstone bedrock. The trough was filled with burnt material. A stone-lined pit, which produced evidence of in situ burning, truncated the SW quadrant of the spread and was located 0.6m NW of the hearth. Excavation also revealed that the fulacht fia was disturbed by land drainage works and was cut by a possible corn-drying kiln (CO088-125----). (pers. comm. Tony Cummins)
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
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.