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Fulacht fia

Knockadrina, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Knockadrina, 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
Knockadrina
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50414, -7.24342
SMR number
KK031-102----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In an area of low-lying pasture. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3677). A subcircular possible trough (1.5m x 1.3m x 0.52m) filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal-rich soil and a number of pits, the largest of which (3.5m x 3.5m x 0.9m) contained a silty fill with charcoal inclusions. Other pits were filled with charcoal-rich silty clay as were a number of possible post-holes and stake-holes. These formed no particular pattern. A small fragment of ash yielded a radiocarbon date of 2272-2039 cal BC (UBA-10989). (Lyne 2010, 243, no. 912; Lyne and Coughlan 2010)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 26 November 2013

References

Lyne, E. 2010 AR062, Danganbeg. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 243, no. 912. Bray. Wordwell.

Lyne, E. and Coughlan, T. 2010 N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Phase 4: Knocktopher to Powerstown. Final report. E3677. Knockadrina 1. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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