Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cartrún An Phóna, County Galway, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.