Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lisnamuck, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnamuck
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73649, -7.78541
- SMR number
- LF013-151----
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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
Archaeological monitoring undertaken in 2006 in advance of development works revealed two ‘fire pits’ 0.8m apart. The larger pit (1.3m E–W; 0.7m N–S; D 0.1m) was oval-shaped with steep sides leading to a flat base. The basal fill was a thin layer of dark brown, compact, sticky clay. Above this was black, sandy clay packed with fragments of burnt and shattered stones mixed with charcoal powder. The second pit (1m E–W; 0.56m N–S; D 0.15m) was also oval-shaped. Along its base was a thin layer of charcoal while the remainder of the pit was filled by cobble-sized, angular stones, some possibly burnt, approximately two layers deep (Giacometti 2006, 8; 2009, 339). The ‘fire pits’ were interpreted as ‘the remains of an area of fulacht fia activity, either forming truncated troughs or associated pits filled with burnt stone and charcoal’ (pers. comm. A. Giacometti 2010).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 22 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.