Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Scanlansland, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scanlansland
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74919, -7.21902
- SMR number
- KK010-067001-
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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
Immediately S of a stream, on SW-facing slope in low-lying terrain sloping towards the Douglas River. One of a number of fulachta fia (KK010-067003- c. 60m to NE; KK010-067004- c. 80m to the ENE; KK010-067002- and KK010-067005- c. 100m to the SE and KK010-067006- c. 200m to SE) in the immediate vicinity recorded by Prendergast (1955, 10).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 December 2018
References
Prendergast, E. 1955 Pre-historic cooking places in Webbsborough district. Old Kilkenny Review 8, 1-10.
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.