Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Killure, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killure
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21602, -7.09500
- SMR number
- WA017-138003-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 a low-lying landscape with a N-S canalised stream immediately to the E. Discovered in centre-line testing for the re-alignment of the R 708 Airport road, and completely excavated (07E0739) (Harte 2010). This is an eroded mound (dims. 15m x 10m; T 0.1-0.4m) of broken and burnt stones that overlay three rectangular troughs. The N trough (dims. 1.5m x 0.9m; D 0.9m) was filled with organic peat, while the S trough (dims. 1.9m x 1.2m; D 0.68m) was steep-sided. The central trough (dims. 2.5m x 0.7m plus; D 0.7m) cut the other two. The mound was cut by a N-S drain at W, and it survives E of the road corridor. Fulacht fia (WA017-138002-) is c. 20m to the S. (Harte, 2010)
Harte, A. (2010) Killure. Fulachta fia. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 515, No. 1820. Wordwell. Dublin.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.