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Fulacht fia

Brownstown (Knocktopher By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Brownstown, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brownstown (Knocktopher By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68018, -7.21873
SMR number
KK014-127003-

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David 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. The most easterly 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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