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Fulacht fia

Daars South, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Daars South, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Daars South
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27524, -6.62777
SMR number
KD014-053----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

On a low-lying, wet, pasture 'headland', skirted by the N-flowing Morell River c. 125m to the E, and by a N-flowing tributary of the Morell c. 175m to the W. A second, possible fulacht fia (KD014-038----) lies c. 25m to the W. A low, grass-covered, oval mound (diams. 8m E-W; 5m N-S; H 0.4-0.6m) is heavily poached by livestock, revealing small amounts of charcoal in the disturbed ground, but no visible burnt stone. Visible on aerial photographs (GSI N 395, 396) in which it looks as if the mound may have originally been larger.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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