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Fulacht fia

Cronykeery, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Cronykeery, County Wicklow, 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
Cronykeery
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01456, -6.08102
SMR number
WI025-046----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Slight traces of the presence of a fulacht fiadh were revealed in the southern part of the townland of Cronykeery, Co. Wicklow, in May 2001, during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook- Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. Small spreads of heat-shattered stone and charcoal were observed in low-lying ground some 3m north of an unnamed stream.
Hand-cleaning found several small, thin spreads of charcoal and heat-shattered stones. Two small pits were also identified which were filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal. These pits measured on average 0.5m by 0.5m with a depth of 0.17-0.2m, and were generally too small to have functioned as troughs. It was concluded that the material identified was perhaps peripheral to a larger fulacht fiadh outside the way-leave of the gas pipeline (Bennett 2003, 417).

Date of upload: 23 October 2012

References

Bennett, I. (ed.) 2003 Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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