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Fulacht fia

Ballynamanagh East, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Ballynamanagh East, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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