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
- 52.78969, -7.13056
- SMR number
- KK011-005003-
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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 terrace to the N of the Dinin river valley and on the W side of a small stream valley, in rolling grassland which has been reclaimed. One of a group of five fulachta fia (KK011-005001-; KK011-005002-; KK011-005003-; KK011-005004-; KK011-005005-) identified by Prendergast (OKR 1977, 267) in the vicinity of a spring well. None of the fulachta fia are visible at ground level.
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
- 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.