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Fulacht fia

Ballymaclode, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Ballymaclode, 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
Ballymaclode
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24122, -7.04989
SMR number
WA018-083----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low cliff on the E bank of a short SW-NE stream at the point where it enters the King's Channel of the River Suir. It is beside a natural spring at the base of a steep W-facing slope. It was first identified in monitoring (Excavation Licence 05E0517) for the Waterford main drainage scheme in September 2006 by J. Moran (2009) when a Late Bronze Age gold bracelet was recovered. The monument was subsequently fully excavated within the wayleave (Excavation Licence 06E0990) by D. Pollock when two fragments from a flat band of gold with a recurved terminal were found (Pollock 2009c).

The site had been and truncated by a pond but appeared as a mound (dims. c. 12m N-S; c. 3-6m E-W; max. T c. 0.8m). It developed around a slight hollow when two oval pits (dims. 1.8m x 1.5m; D 0.7m: 1m x 0.5m; D 0.15m), both filled with shattered sandstone, were dug. They were followed by a third pit (diam. c. 2m; D 0.7m) and the burnt mound material was layered with upcast, including from a rectangular trough (dims. 2m E-W; c. 1.3m N-S; D 0.4m) dug over the larger of the earlier pits. The straight sides of the trough suggest it was wood-lined, and both the trough and the third pit were filled with burnt mound material. The mound produced two C14 dates - 1370-1340 Cal. BC and 1280-900 Cal. BC. A stone axe and 36 lithics were recovered, mostly from ploughsoil, but they suggest earlier activity in the vicinity. (Pollock 2009f)

Moran, J. (2009) Waterford main drainage scheme, counties Kilkenny/Waterford. Various. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 531-2, No. 2000. Wordwell. Dublin.
Pollock, D. (2009c) Ballymaclode. Burnt mound material. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 525, No. 1968. Wordwell. Dublin.
Pollock, D. (2009f) Final excavation report on a burnt mound site at Ballymaclode, County Waterford. Unpublished report. Judith Carroll and Company.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 17 June 2011

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

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