Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Coan West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coan West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78695, -7.13939
- SMR number
- KK011-004----
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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
Adjacent to a spring well on a terrace above the Dinin river valley to S and a small stream valley to the E, in rolling grassland. Identified by Prendergast (1977, 267), the more easterly of two fulachta fia (KK011-004----; KK011-004002-) which are c. 30m apart. A crescent-shaped mound, composed of black earth and small fire-cracked stones, with a sunken central area.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 January 2019
References
Prendergast, E. 1977 A fulacht fiadh at Ballyhimmin near Castlecomer. Old Kilkenny Review. 1 (4), 264-7.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.