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Fulacht fia

Brusk, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Brusk, 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
Brusk
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27558, -8.67980
SMR number
GA096-016002-

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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 low-lying pastureland. A low grassed-over crescentic mound of earth (8m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.6m) with a central hollow (2m E-W; c. 1.5m N-S) opening to W may be the remains of a possible fulacht fia. No burnt stone was evident so it may possibly be a pile of upcast associated with the digging of nearby drainage ditches; one drain cuts across the N end of it. There is a moated site c. 45m to the SW and another possible fulacht fia c. 135m to the SSE. (Cody 1989, 157, no. 12)

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 18 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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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

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

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