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
- 52.75343, -7.70364
- SMR number
- TN036-050016-
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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 with bogland tot he N and E. Nearby burnt mounds (TN036-050/014/015) lie 100m and 60m to the E respectively. A ploughed-out fulacht fia consisting of a large horseshoe-shaped spread (dims. 14.8m E-W x 5.7m N-S; D 0.24m) of fire-cracked stone and charcoal with a shallow, roughly circular depression (diam. 3.9m; D 0.33m) possibly indicating the presence of a trough area. (Stevens 2000, 198)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.