Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Coumaraglinmountain, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coumaraglinmountain
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.17966, -7.62315
- SMR number
- WA023-066040-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on the E side of a stream that curves E-N-S around the N edge of the Monavar valley, on ground that slopes gently down to the S. Two kidney-shaped, heather-covered mounds separated by an old N-S stream bed. The E mound (WA023-066039-) is larger, but the W mound (dims. 11m NE-SW; 6.7m NW-SE; max. H 1.2m) is open to the SE. (Moore 1995, 217, 225, 241, F12, F13)
This monument forms part of the national monument complex at Coumaraglinmountain (National Monuments (Preservation) Order No. 4 of 1996).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 29 April 2011
References
Moore, M. 1995 A bronze age settlement and ritual centre in the Monavullagh mountains, county Waterford, Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 61, 191-243.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.