Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Rahard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27948, -8.71841
- SMR number
- GA096-145----
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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 low-lying marshy pastureland, c. 10m to the W of a stream. This partially demolished fulacht fia consists of two oval-shaped grassed-over mounds of burnt stone. A slight rise running from the W end of the N mound (7m E-W; 4m N-S; H 1m) to the S mound (7m E-W; 5m N-S; H 0.3m) suggests that the trough area
originally opened out to the E. (Cody 1989, 162, no. 22)
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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.