Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Dromore West, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromore West
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.08593, -7.08857
- SMR number
- MO022-024----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered during archaeological monitoring (Excavation License No. 03E0481). A linear feature and two pits all filled with black soil and heat cracked stones were uncovered. The excavator suggests that the pits may have functioned as the troughs of a fulacht fia and due to agricultural activity the burnt mound of this had been reduced to thin spreads of burnt material which filled sub-soil features. (Halpin E. 2006, 397)
Reference:
E. Halpin, 2006 Dromore West Fulacht fiadh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 397 (No. 1486). Bray. Wordwell
Date of upload: 14 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.