Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Derrycool, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycool
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.75583, -8.82892
- SMR number
- CO109-099----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying ground to the E of a drain that channels water from a stream to the N. A spread (7.2m E-W; min. c. 5.4m N-S; D 0.7m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil extending into the wayleave of the Ballincollig-Ballineen gas pipeline was discovered during topsoil stripping and was excavated in 2000. Beneath the spread was a loosely set layer of sandstone pebbles partially covered by sods. The pebbles may have functioned as a dry work surface for the fulacht fia or they may have been a dump of stones used in the heating process. A clay-lined trough (min. 1.1m N-S; 1.05m E-W), filled with heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil, was found in the NW corner of the spread. Its full extent could not be determined as it lay partially outside the excavated area. The N portion of this fulacht fia, which lies outside of the pipeline corridor, was not excavated and remains in situ. (Tobin 2002c, 47)
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.