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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
53.98919, -6.71748
SMR number
MO031-134----

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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. 03E1254). Situated in a low lying area, in a S-curving loop of a small meandering stream at a point where it changes from a general N-S course to a general E-W course. The burnt mound (MO031-139---) and fulacht fia (MO031-127----) are further E on the same stream. A spread of burnt stone material (dims 8m x 5m; max. D 0.4m) was initially uncovered. Excavation of this revealed two hearths, a posthole and two troughs. The smaller trough (1.4m N-S x 1.23m E-W) had 14 waterlogged planks at its base and the larger trough (1.74m N-S x 1.55m E-W) had a large flat stone at its base. A plank from the trough produced a calibrated C14 date of 1377-896 BC (Walsh 2011, 517-8). (Walsh 2006, 406-7)

Date of upload: 14 April 2011

References

Walsh, F. 2011 A tale of two townlands (Part I) Clogher Record, vol. 20, No. 3, 500-20.

Walsh F. 2006, Monanny 2 Prehistoric. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 406-7 (No. 1504). 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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