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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
53.94074, -8.66097
SMR number
RO008C035001-

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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 (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.

Nearby in the register

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

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