Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knoxspark, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knoxspark
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20180, -8.50256
- SMR number
- SL020-271----
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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
Described as a kidney-shaped mound (13.2m E-W; 10.4m N-S; H 0.54m) of heat-shattered stones in a charcoal-enriched soil, indented on its S side (McConway 2000, 280). A rescue excavation was carried out in 2000 (Deevy 2001, 304) as the fulacht fia was in an area proposed as a landfill site. Excavation revealed a series of wooden planks and posts likely to represent the remains of the base of a trough under the S side of the mound and a discontinuous ring of thirty wooden stakes, c. 0.3m apart, which formed an enclosure (diam. 15m) around the mound (ibid.).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
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- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.