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Fulacht fia

Sraghgaddy, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Sraghgaddy, 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
Sraghgaddy
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indciated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indciated
Coordinates
52.65686, -7.05747
SMR number
KK020-026004-

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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

Indicated as an area of marshy terrain on the 1st ed. OS map with a stream running NW-SE through the area. By the 1900 revision a railway line, running NE-SW, has cut through the area. According to O'Kelly (1969, 86), 'Fulachta Fiadh were uncovered here in 1959 near the railway during Land Project drainage operations'. Prendergast (1955, 10) includes in a list of 'Fulacht fiadh sites in Co. Kilkenny ...recorded in 1955...Shraghgaddy townland, Gowran bar. 6" Sheet 20, approx. 22cm from North. 1 cm from East. At least six sites'. These are collected recorded under the SMR number KK020-026---- and each of the individual fulacht fia also assigned a separate SMR number: KK020-026001-; KK020-026002-; KK020-026003-; Kk020-026004-; KK020-026005- and KK020-026006-. These have not been individually located.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 24 November 2020

References

O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.

Prendergast, E. 1955 Pre-historic cooking places in Webbsborough district. Old Kilkenny Review 8, 1-10.

Nearby in the register

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

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