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Fulacht fia

Curraghtarsna, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Curraghtarsna, County Tipperary South, 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
Curraghtarsna
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52008, -7.78227
SMR number
TS061-068----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A wooden trough, reused from a dug out canoe, was discovered during drainage works in the early 1980s (Buckley 1985, 70-71). A subsequent excavation revealed this may have been the trough of a fulacht fia (ibid.). The trough consisted of the hollowed trunk (2.7m long) split along the base to form planks with separate end-beams pegged into position (Buckley 1989/90, 78). The entire structure was caulked with clay (ibid.). At a later date part of the trough collapsed and a rough wall, caulked with clay, was built across it and the damaged area was backfilled thereby shortening the trough (ibid.). The timber has given a radiocarbon date of 3120±35 BP (GrN 12618) (ibid.).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 August 2014

References

Buckley, V. 1989/90 Curraghtarsna - fulacht fiadh. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 5, 78.

Buckley, V.M. 1985 Curraghtarsna. Current Archaeology 98, 70–71.

Nearby in the register

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

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