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Fulacht fia

Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, 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
Kilmacthomas
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.19951, -7.41101
SMR number
WA015-095----

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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

Excavated (00E0198) as Area 24 of the N25 Kilmacthomas re-alignment. Situated on the N side of a little E-W valley, c. 10m N of a small E-W stream and c. 300m E of its conjunction with the NNW-SSE Mahon river. A subtriangular burnt mound (dims. c. 8m x c. 8m; H 0.3m) has an associated subrectangular trough (dims. 1.6m x 1.5m; D 0.7m) that was lined with stones on the S (downslope) side. Three areas of burning (diam. c. 1m) located c. 4m upslope from the burnt mound are interpreted as hearths. Burnt mound (WA015-099----) is c. 25m to the E. (Noonan 2002; 2008)

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload: 17th December, 2010.

Noonan, D. 2008 Fulacht fiadh and hearths: Area 24, Carrignanonshagh td., licence No. 00E0198. In Johnston, P., Kiely, J. & Tierney, J. 2008 Near the bend in the River, 92-4. NRA Scheme Monographs, No. 3. Dublin.

Noonan, D. 2002 Carrignanonshagh. Fulacht fiadh. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2000. summary account of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 332, No. 980. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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