Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Monanny, County Monaghan, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.