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Fulacht fia

Coumaraglinmountain, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Coumaraglinmountain, 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
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.

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

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

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

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