Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Tintagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tintagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01569, -8.29556
- SMR number
- RO003-092----
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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
In a boggy upland hollow. A kidney-shaped mound (dims. 13m E-W; 7m N-S; H 0.5-0.75m) of fire-cracked sandstone open to the S was excavated (96E0117) revealing two primary troughs. At the centre was an oval trough (dims 3m NE-SW; 1.55m NW-SE; D 0.2-0.45m) with a subcircular trough (dims 1.9m N-S; 1.45m E-W; D 0.3m) at the W end of the mound with a pot-boiler between them, all of which were broadly contemporary although the W trough was less developed. A third oval trough (dims 2m NW-SE; 1.7m NE-SW; D 0.5-0.8m) cut the SE edge of the central trough, None of the troughs were lined. (Opie 1996, 1997b)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 28 September 2017
References
Opie, H. 1997b Erris. Burnt mound and trackways. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1996: summary account of archaeological excavations in Ireland. 94-5, No. 330. Bray. Wordwell.
Opie, H. 1996 Curlew Mountains project: Report on Archaeological Investigations of a Fulacht Fiadh at Tintagh Td., County Roscommon. Licence No.: 96E0117. Unpublished report: John Channing Archaeological Consultancy
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.