Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
An Cheathrú Bhán, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cheathrú Bhán
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53602, -9.33710
- SMR number
- GA027-045----
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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
In a wet area at the base of a rocky SW-facing slope. This well-preserved fulacht fia is defined by a crescent-shaped mound (18.1m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE) that opens to the NW (Wth 6m). The trough area (7m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) has a flat poorly drained base. The mound is truncated by a NW-SE running trackway to the SW and it blends into the base of the natural slope to the NE. Indications of a second fulacht fia (GA027-045001-) abut the rear of it to the SE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.