Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Glenmagoo Or Firoda Lower, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenmagoo Or Firoda Lower
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.80904, -7.24392
- SMR number
- KK005-071----
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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
At the foot of a W-facing slope in an area of formerly marshy ground which has been reclaimed. Spread of burnt stone and charcoal (max. dims. 5m N-S, 4m E-W) identified in 1987, in area of boggy ground near a small stream. The mound of the fulacht fia was levelled in the 1950s.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.