Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballymackan, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymackan
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02736, -7.25491
- SMR number
- LA013-113----
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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
This excavation consisted of one of three areas of fulacht fiadh or burnt spread material (LA013-113001; LA013-113002-) along a 125m stretch of the Portlaoise Bypass. There were no surface indications such as a mound prior to machine stripping to suggest the existence of a possible fulacht fia. Referred to in the excavation report as site 1 which had an area of burnt material (dims. 8m x 7m) which covered a pit-trough, subrectangular in shape, 2.3m x 1.5m x 0.4m, a post-hole in the corner of the feature, and nearby a linear depression 6.6m x 1m x 0.14m. This site was located in the townland of Ballymackan.
Site was excavated by C. Duffy in 1995 under excavation licence no. 95E092.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.