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Fulacht fia

Ballyloughan, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Ballyloughan, County Wexford, 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
Ballyloughan
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68909, -6.26444
SMR number
WX007-067----

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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

The site was excavated (E3494) during 2005 as Site 33 of the N11 Gorey to Arklow link. Situated in a low-lying area on the S bank of a small ESE-WNW stream, although an older course of the stream ran just S of it. A semi-circular mound of broken and burnt stone (dims 15m E-W; 11m N-S; T 0.25m) was used in conjunction with a steep-sided, pear-shaped trough (dims 2m x 1.8m; D 0.7m). There was a cluster of stake-holes just N of the trough, and two concentrations of charcoal on the S bank of the old stream are interpreted as hearths. (Stevens 2008)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 16 March, 2012

References

Stevens, P. 2008 Site 33, Ballyloughan. Burnt mound. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 396-7, No. 1612. Wordwell. Dublin

Nearby in the register

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

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