Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Currinah, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currinah
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93818, -8.65190
- SMR number
- RO008C034----
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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
Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (E3355) as Currinah IV during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass road. Situated in a low-lying basin. An oval mound of burnt stone (dims. 8.4m E-W; 3.8m N-S; T 0.2-0.3m) overlay a stone and wood-lined trough (ext. dims. 1.7m N-S; 0.7-0.9m E-W; D 0.2m) with a base of brushwood and split roundwood. It produced C14 dates between 1254-1045 Cal. BC. (Kerrigan 2009a; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010a, 133-7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Kerrigan, A. 2009a Currinah: fulacht fia. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 457, No. 1726. Dublin. Wordwell.
Kerrigan, A. and Gillespie, R.F. 2010a Fulachta fiadh. In R.F. Gillespie and A. Kerrigan, Of troughs and tuyéres. NRA Scheme monographs No. 6, 45-154. Dublin. National Roads Authority.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.