Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Bookeen South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bookeen South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25698, -8.62270
- SMR number
- GA097-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a gentle S-facing slope in marshy grassland adjacent to a stream. This fulacht fia is defined by a low C-shaped mound (11m N-S) of grassed-over burnt stone opening out to the E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.