Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Boolabeg, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolabeg
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.27935, -7.51126
- SMR number
- WA007-082----
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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
On a gentle N-facing slope at the base of the Comeragh Mountains, adjacent to a stream. A large horse-shoe shaped, grass-covered, stony mound (dims. 27m N-S x 15m E-W; H 0.7m) with a rectangular E-W depression (L 4m; Wth 2.5m), probably for the trough, facing W. The mound is higher immediately N and S of the depression. Another fulacht fia (WA007-094----) is located 17m to the S.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.