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Fulacht fia

Woodstown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Woodstown, County Limerick, 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
Woodstown
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.66362, -8.51936
SMR number
LI006-097----

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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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In a slight depression, on the flood plain of the Mulkear River. Identified during monitoring of topsoil removal prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road. Excavated (Licence No. 01E0762) by Michael Connolly in 2001. A shallow burnt spread (diam. 12m) consisting of heat-shattered stone and charcoal mixed with boulder clay and topsoil. This material is very disturbed and it was difficult to determine if it was in-situ. The same material has been used to backfill a number of land drains uncovered across the excavation area (ibid). The recovery of some small fragments of cremated bone within the burnt material may suggest a function other than that of a fulacht fiadh (Connolly 2003, 245-6).

See attached plan extract from excavation report (Connolly 2001).

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 1 July 2020

References

Connolly, M. 2001 Archaeological excavation at Woodstown, Co. Limerick. Licence No. 01E0762. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin.

Connolly, M. 2003 Woodstown; Burnt Spread. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 245-6, No. 808. Bray. 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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