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Fulacht fia

Kellymount, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Kellymount, 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
Kellymount
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68746, -7.03176
SMR number
KK016-022----

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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 gentle E-facing slope, in flat pasture. Excavated in 2007/8 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3858). Thirteen burnt spreads comprising heat-shattered stone and grey silt may have formed part of a larger mound of material. They overlay three troughs, two of which were conjoined. Three stake-holes E of one trough may have been associated. A sub-circular stone platform built with 14 slab-like stones resting above a layer of pebbles was located to the N of the conjoined troughs. A number of pits were located to the E and SE of the troughs and may have been storage or roasting pits. Three linear features associated with the troughs may have been drainage gullies. (Wiersbicki 2009; 2010, 251-2, no. 954)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 8 January 2014

References

Wierzbicki, P. 2010 AR127, Kellymount. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 251-2, no. 954. Dublin. Wordwell.

Wierzbicki, P. 2009 Preliminary Archaeological Resolution report. N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme: Phase 4B. Ministerial Direction: A032. Site name: AR127, Kellymount 5. Registration No. E3858. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

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

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