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Fulacht Fiadh in Kishkeam Upper

Fulacht fia

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In rough grazing. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (13.6m E-W; 9.8m N-S; H 0.3m); opening (Wth 3.3m) faces SW. North side of mound cut by drain. Possibly the fulacht fiadh recorded by Bowman (1934, 469) on J. Murphy's land ..'a drain was made through this, a trough c. 4ft by 3 by c. 1ft. deep was found. It is said that this was made out of one solid piece of oak'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO021-031

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Eeno11, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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