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Fulacht fia

Ask, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Ask, 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
Ask
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70294, -6.26195
SMR number
WX007-074001-

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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

This site was excavated (E3500) during 2005 as Site 40 of the N11 Gorey to Arklow link. Located on a slight shelf on the lower W-facing slope of Ask Hill. A mound of broken and burnt stone (dims 5.7m x 4.9m; T 0.27m) overlay a circular, nearly straight-sided and flat-bottomed trough (diam. 1.9-2m; D 0.95m) which had been re-cut. A group of stake-holes immediately to the S could have pre-dated it, but a roughly metalled surface partly overlies the trough, although also incorporated into the mound. Five pits (diam. c. 0.7m-1.5m; D 0.1-0.5m) at a distance from the mound (10-20m) are probably related as many contain burnt mound material. The furnace (WX007-074002-) is just S of the trough. The house (WX007-073----) is c. 100m to the SW and the fulacht fia (WX007-075----) is c. 100m to the N. (Bower 2008)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 16 March, 2012

References

Bower, N. 2008 N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Archaeogical Resolution. Preliminary report AD03/036 E3500 Site 40. Ask, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report: V. J. Keeley Ltd.

Nearby in the register

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

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