Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Webbsborough, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Webbsborough
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75204, -7.22989
- SMR number
- KK010-065003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a broad terrace just above the Douglas and Dinin river valley floors. In a formerly marshy field, now reclaimed, with a stream immediately to the S. One of four fulachta fia identified by Prendergast (1955, 1-10), the others are KK010-064---- c. 250m to the WNW; KK010-065001- c. 54m to the SW and KK010-065002- c. 108m to the SE. It is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 December 2018
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.