Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Glasnamullen, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasnamullen
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12001, -6.18835
- SMR number
- WI012-054----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on level ground on the E edge of a small stream. Oval mound (14m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.7m) with an elongated oval hollow (L 7m; Wth 4m; D 0.4m) extending into the mound from the W side. When ploughed in the recent past the site was revealed as an area of very dark earth and burnt stone. There are two other fulachta fiadh (WI012-055---- / WI012-056----) in the vicinity.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.