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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53322, -9.66919
- SMR number
- GA025-021----
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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
On a steep slope on S side of Gleann Glaise, immediately overlooking the Bealnabrack River. A slightly crescentic, grass-covered mound (N-S 9m, E-W 4.5m, H l-2m) open to W where a small stream flows past. In the same valley as GA025-016---- and GA025-020----.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.