Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Garr, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garr
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39491, -7.19728
- SMR number
- OF004-018----
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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
Small horseshoe shaped mound (H c. 0.50m, max E-W dims 8.20m) with trough orientated NNW. Some burnt stone and black soil visible. Similar site (OF004-017----) 8m to the W and a further one to the NNE.
On low-lying flat marshy land between good pasture land and bog with graveyard to S (OF004-002----). Grass covered horseshoe-shaped mound (8m N-S; 10.5m E-W; H 0.2m) of burnt material with central waterlogged depression (2.5m by 3m) open to NNW. Second fulacht fiadh 6m to the NE. One of a group of five fulachta fiadh
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.