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Fulacht fia

Currinah, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland
Currinah
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.94074, -8.66097
SMR number
RO008C035001-

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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 (E3356) as a part of Currinah I during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a basin at the base of a N-facing slope. An irregularly-shaped mound (dims 12m N-S; 9.45m E-W; T 0.2m) of fire-cracked stones overlay a stone-lined trough (dims 2m x 1.35m; D 0.3m) with rounded corners augmented with stakes. Worked flint and chert pieces were recovered, and charcoal from the trough produced C14 dates of 895-797 Cal. BC. Fulacht fia (RO008C035002-) is c. 35m to the ENE. (Kerrigan 2009b, Area I; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010a, 126-9)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

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.

Kerrigan, A. 2009b Currinah: fulachta fia and pit. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 457-8, No. 1727. Dublin. Wordwell.

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