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
- 52.80819, -7.24312
- SMR number
- KK005-100----
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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
On level, formerly marshy, ground at the SE end of a N-S ridge with a stream, deepened to form a drain 2m to the S. A low horseshoe-shaped mound (diam. 10m E-W; 8m N-S;H 0.4m) of burnt stone and ash with a depression (2m N-S; 2m E-W) at S, probably representing a trough. Two other fulachta fia (KK005-099---- and KK005-101----) lie 8m to the SW and 8m to the NE respectively.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 June 2013
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.