Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Mullaghavorneen, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghavorneen
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70297, -7.81036
- SMR number
- LF013-120----
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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
First identified in 2001 during topsoil-stripping in advance of a quarry extension, this fulacht fia was excavated (Site 1) in 2004. The mound (L 3m; Wth 3m; D 0.3m) of heat-shattered stones overlay an unusually large trough (L 2.5m; Wth 2m; D 0.35m). There were post-holes in the four corners of the trough. These may have been part of a shelter covering or surrounding the trough (Read 2006b, 321; 2007b, 254). A burnt spread lies c. 50m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 22 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.