Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Murphystown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murphystown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27157, -6.21973
- SMR number
- DU022-109----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Topsoil stripping on the South-Eastern Motorway uncovered a fulacht fiadh. This appeared as a discontinuous spread of dark soil (L 18m, Wth 15m). It covered an oval pit (L2m, D 0.7m) filled with burnt material. Four pieces of flint were found in the pit (Breen 2004, 177).
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.