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Fulacht fia

Aghnahunshin, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Aghnahunshin, County Leitrim, 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
Aghnahunshin
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.82321, -7.90860
SMR number
LE037-017001-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a narrow low NE-SW ridge at the edge of a raised peat bog that extends off to the E and S. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0983) for a new line of the N4 (O’Connor et al. 2005, 43), and later fully excavated (E003311) as a part of Aghnahunshin. Excavation recorded three fulachta fia and associated features. This is a spread of burnt and broken stone (dims 10.2m x 9m; max. T 0.14m) overlying a circular trough (diam. 2m; D 0.7m). The trough had four layers with varying proportions of silt, sand, burnt stone and charcoal, and it was cut by a shallow feature (dims 4.5m x 1.5m; D 0.3m) extending off to the NE, which may have been a step. This was filled with three layers of burnt stone. (Seaver and O’Connor 2009, 13-14; Seaver 2009, 311)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 9 January 2020

O’Connor, D. J., Marta Muniz Pérez and Sheelagh Conran 2005 N4 Dromod-Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract Licence No. 05E0983 Preliminary Report. Unpublished, CRDS

References

Seaver, M. and O’Connor, D. J. 2009 N4 Dromod – Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract. Aghnahunshin. Ministerial Direction A 31 (A31-023/E003311) Final Report, Unpublished, CRDS

Seaver, M. 2009 Aughnahunshin. Prehistoric. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 311-2, No. 1199. Dublin, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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