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
- 52.80954, -7.24593
- SMR number
- KK005-072----
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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
At the foot of a S-facing slope, in moderate arable land, formerly marshy. A spread of burnt stone and charcoal (max. dims. 8m) identified in 1987. The mound of the fulacht fia was levelled in 1950s, though it is still evident as a slight rise (H 0.1m) in ground.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.