Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Curraghtarsna, County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringwork and baileyunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.