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Fulacht fia

Currinah, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Currinah, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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