Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Balkinstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balkinstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08798, -6.91896
- SMR number
- KD027-032----
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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
One of three small, closely associated mounds (KD027-032---- KD027-033---- and KD027-034----) shown on the current ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map lying parallel to and just SW of a small stream. In level pasture. No visible surface trace of any of the mounds - possible fulachtaí fia - survived in 1986 (SMR file).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.