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
- 53.29432, -8.80981
- SMR number
- GA084-125----
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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 marshy ground just to the W of a pond. This fulacht fia was described by Cody (1989, 163, no. 24) as an ill-defined partly grass-covered mound of burnt stone which was oval in plan (7m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.5m). It was being eroded by livestock drinking at the adjacent pond. On inspection in 1984 the monument was almost completely levelled. Only a subrectangular area of burnt stone (7.2m N-S; 3.9m E-W; H 0.25m) partially covered by sod was visible. Two other fulachta fia (GA084-124---- and GA084-129----) lie c. 95m to the NW and c. 45m to the SW respectively.
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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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.