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
- 52.68012, -7.21919
- SMR number
- KK014-127002-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 flat very wet valley floor with numerous streams and springs. There are fair views across the valley. The middle of three possible fulachta fia (KK014-127001-/KK014-127002-/KK014-127003-) identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987. They are orientated in a linear roughly E-W arrangement, c. 30m apart.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.