Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Kilcurrivard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcurrivard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43633, -8.91475
- SMR number
- GA057-124----
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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 slight rise in low-lying pastureland. An irregularly shaped mound (NNW-SSE 19.2m, WSW-ENE 12.1m, H 0.7m) of grassed-over burnt stone with a depression on ENE side. A bone gaming piece with dot and circle motif found on the site c. 1959 was brought to the National Museum Dublin (Topgr. Files, NMI). Some 120m to SE is another fulacht fiadh (GA057-125----).
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).
Revised by: Olive Alcock]
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.