Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Brownstown (Knocktopher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown (Knocktopher By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68072, -7.21272
- SMR number
- KK014-121----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a flat very wet valley floor with numerous streams and springs. There are fair views across the valley. A very large fulacht fia composed of black earth and cracked burnt stone identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.