Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Duntryleague, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Duntryleague
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40200, -8.35342
- SMR number
- LI049-057----
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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 reclaimed pasture, Bronze Age pits (LI049-055/56----) lies 50m to the W. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Fulacht fia (site TR/2/16/5) excavated by Margaret Gowen 1986 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 180). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 September 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.