Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Muckalee, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckalee
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74834, -7.21631
- SMR number
- KK010-067006-
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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 SW-facing slope in low-lying terrain sloping towards the Douglas River, in a reclaimed field. One of a number of fulachta fia (KK010-067001- c. 200m to NW; KK010-067003- c. 180m to the NW; KK010-067004- c. 150m to NW; KK010-067002- and KK010-067005- c. 100m to the W) in the immediate vicinity recorded by Prendergast (1955, 10). Two of these fulacta fia (KK010-067002- and KK010-067005-) were partially excavated by Prendergast (ibid. 1-3). This fulacht fia is not visible at ground level.
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.