Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballynamanagh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamanagh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22538, -8.90986
- SMR number
- GA095-165----
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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
In a broad shallow depression in gently undulating pastureland to the N of Dunbulcaun Bay. A stream, now channeled, flows c. 120m to the W. This fulacht fiadh, along with two others (GA095-166---- and GA095-167----), was revealed while ploughing in 1984. It consists of a roughly circular area of dark soil (11.6m E-W;10.5m N-S; H 0.4m) composed of two areas of small fire-fractured stones, flanking a roughly central area of fine dark-grey stone-free clay. Some 10m to the S is another small area of dark-grey fine clay (E-W 2m). Possibly a hearth but no charcoal is discernible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.