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Fulacht fia

Monanny, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Monanny, County Monaghan, 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
Monanny
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.98943, -6.71640
SMR number
MO031-127----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · 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 prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 03E0888). It is situated immediately to the N of a NW-SE section of a small meandering river which forms part of the Glyde river system. Excavation revealed a spread of burnt material (c. 15m E-W x 5m N-S; max. D 0.5m) with a sub-rectangular trough underneath it (c. 3m x 1.2m; D 0.5m). The trough had a large timber plank at the base of it. The oak plank produced a calibrated C14 date of 1873-1134 BC. The remains of a burnt mound (MO031-139----) was found on the S side of the stream in Cloghvally Lower townland, jut to the W and another fulacht fia (MO031-134----) is c. 40m to the SW on the N side of the stream. (Walsh 2006, 406; 2011, 516-7)

Date of revised upload: 27 July 2017

References

Walsh F. 2006, Monanny 1, Neolithic, Bronze Age, post-medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 404-6 (No. 1503). 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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