Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyrisode, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrisode
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.51124, -9.66114
- SMR number
- CO147-091----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1866 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On mid-foreshore at low water on S side of Ballyrisode beach/strand (inner beach) to immediate SE of carpark; site would cover at mid to high water. Eroded and well buried, so difficult to assess nature and extent. 2 upright slabs at slight angles to each other facing seaward and may have been a third stone but is now collapsed; 1m to south 3 long slabs enclosing a rectangular box-like stone setting; enclosed on 3 sides and open on side facing seaward. May be an earlier site reused for later burials. Potential fulacht fiadh stone trough or a cist burial.
Compiled by: Connie Kelleher
Date of upload: 17 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.