Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Coan East, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coan East
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79120, -7.10802
- SMR number
- KK011-010----
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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 the N bank of a dried-up meandering stream, on the E side of the Coon river valley, in reclaimed grassland. Identified by Prendergast (OKR 1977, 267). The fulacht fia is not visible at ground level.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.