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
- 52.75004, -7.21356
- SMR number
- KK010-068003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On ground sloping gently to the Dinin and Douglas river valley floors, in rolling grassland. A small stream runs along the S boundary of field, in a reclaimed field. One of three fulachta fia (KK010-068001- c. 25m to the NW and KK010-068002- c. 30m to the NE) in the immediate vicinity recorded by Prendergast (1955, 10). 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.