Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Goat Island, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Goat Island
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45468, -8.54029
- SMR number
- LI040-046----
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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
In pasture, 90m S of townland boundary with Ballybrennan. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Fulacht fiadh (Site No. 040173) excavated in 1986 during work associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 179). Monument listed as Site 1/0/1 by Gowen and described as 'a very low, ill-defined mound'. No surface remains visible of monument that has been fully excavated.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 27 May 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.