Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Killosolan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killosolan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46515, -8.41946
- SMR number
- GA046-091----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grass and bogland. A poorly preserved C-shaped mound of earth and stone (D 3.3m, H 1.8m max.) with a hollow centre (D 1.8m) opening towards NNE. Its size and location suggest a fulacht fiadh, though local opinion holds it to have been related to a limekiln, c. 5m to SW, which is marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a small mound.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.