Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Rathlihen, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathlihen
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19806, -7.64538
- SMR number
- OF024-036006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Two barely discernible grass covered spreads of burnt material in flat pasture, along N bank of stream with archaeological complex (OF024-036----) to the N. Probably the site of two levelled fulachta fiadh. Present remains consist of a poorly preserved horseshoe shaped mound (6m N-S by 3m E-W; H 0.5m) of burnt material. The second fulacht fiadh located to the E consists of a low mound (8m WSW-ESE; 4m NNW-SSE; H 0.5m) with shallow depression running N-S across mound.
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
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1986).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.