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
- 52.74181, -7.22009
- SMR number
- KK010-079003-
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 very steep slope dropping N to the river Douglas. A small stream runs downslope just W of the fulacht fia. One of three fulachta fia (KK010-079001- c. 190m to the NNE; KK010-079002- c. 130m to the NNE) identified by Prendergast (1955, 10) in this field. The field has been reclaimed and the monument is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 January 2019
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.