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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
53.93634, -8.64715
SMR number
RO008C036002-

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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 (11E0231) as Currinah 5b in the preparatory work for the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a SE-NW valley with a small stream c. 80m to the N. Excavation recorded a S-N palaeo-channel c. 5m E of the base of a small oval trough (dims 1.3m NW-SE; 1m NE-SW; D 0.15m) with some timbers at the bottom that was overlain by a larger straight-sided rectangular trough (dims 2.2m NW-SE; 1.2m NE-SW; D 0.63m) that still had some stones from its lining and floor. The upper trough was filled with broken and burnt stone that spread into a mound (dims 10m x 8m; max. T 0.4m) of two principal layers W of the trough and which sealed a single post-hole. A sample of oak from the lower trough produced a C14 date of 2026-1887 cal. BC while a sample of charcoal from the upper trough produced a C14 date of 1253-1027 cal. BC. Burnt mound (RO008C036001-) is c. 30m to the NW. (Delaney 2011c, 2-4)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 16 October, 2015

References

Delaney, D. 2011c N5 Ballaghaderreen Bypas: Currinah 5a & 5b Fulachta fia. Licence: 11E0231. Unpublished report: Irish Archaeological Consultancy

Nearby in the register

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

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