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Fulacht fia

Cartrún An Phóna, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Cartrún An Phóna, County Galway, 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
Cartrún An Phóna
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.53405, -9.68039
SMR number
GA025-016----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

At the side of a modern trackway on S side of Gleann Glaise, immediately overlooking the Bealnabrack River and valley floor. It consists of a subcircular area (N-S 4.2m, E-W 5m) defined by low boulders, adjoined on its E and SE sides by a large grassed-over mound (N-S 4.2m, E-W 6.5m, H 1-1.6m). The latter has been damaged by the trackway, revealing shattered, burnt stone and humic earth. A stone row is visible on the valley floor c. 300m to N (GA025-012----), and there are two other fulachta fiadh (GA025-020----, GA025-021----) in the valley c. 305m and c. 730m to ESE and E respectively.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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