Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Killoran (moyne Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoran (moyne Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75059, -7.68559
- SMR number
- TN036-050004-
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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
Situated on the W-facing slope of a low rise of ground in undulating countryside. Fulacht fia discovered during topsoil stripping, no surface trace visible prior to excavation. Site consisted of a truncated horsehoe-shaped mound (L 8m-10m; Wth 7.8m; D 0.11m) of burnt material orientated N-S with a sub-oval trough (L 1.53m; Wth 1.14m; D 0.24m) which had been backfilled with fire-cracked stone and charcoal-rich soil. A fragment of animal tooth was recovered from the trough area. An area of in situ burning or a hearth (L 2.8m x Wth 1.17m) was uncovered 4m S of the mound (Stevens 1998, Killoran 5, 172). Charcoal from the trough was radiocarbon dated to 1750-1410 BC (Stevens 1999, 139).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.