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Fulacht fia

Ballylinnen, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Ballylinnen, County Kilkenny, 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
Ballylinnen
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.83033, -7.21723
SMR number
KK005-010----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 an E-facing slope just below the crest of a hill, in upland terrain, under pasture. There is a fair view to the N and extensive to the E and S but it it impeded by the hill crest to the W. Listed as a fulacht fia by Prendergast (1977, 1 (4), 267). A roughly horse-shoe shaped mound, though the W end is formed by the slope of the hill. The mound material of the fulacht is mainly to the N (dims. 8m x 12m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.3m) and S (dims. 12m x 12m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) of the trough (dims. 3m x 4m), though it does spread across the downslope on the E side where both mounds meet. Mound material composed of darker soil than in surrounding field and fire-cracked stones, though there is no charcoal evident in small under-sod area that was examined. There was probably a spring here, now dried up, with an old water channel running eastward downslope from the fulacht.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 13 November 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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