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Fulacht fia

Killure, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Killure, 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
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 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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

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

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