Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Rathmorrissy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmorrissy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29494, -8.81058
- SMR number
- GA084-124----
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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 low-lying marshy ground. When visited by Cody (1989, 163, no. 23) in 1983, this fulacht fia consisted of a crescentic grassy mound of burnt stone (9m E-W; 7m N-S; H 0.5m max) opening to the S. To its S a shallow hollow-way may have marked the course of a dried-up stream. On inspection in 1984 disturbance had reduced the mound to no more than a scattering of burnt stone, charcoal and black earth. Other fulachta fia lie c. 80m to the SE (GA084-125----) and c. 110m to the SSE (GA084-129----).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 November 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.