Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballynacourty, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21495, -8.92655
- SMR number
- GA103-035----
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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 N-facing slope on the S side of a broad shallow valley. This fulacht fia is defined by an oblong grassy mound (c. 11m NW-SE; 6.5m NE-SW; H 0.8m) that is cut across, on an ENE-WSW axis, by a shallow grass-covered trench, creating the effect of two discrete but contiguous mounds. However, the mound appears to have been kidney-shaped originally, opening towards the NE. There are three other fulachta fia in this valley (GA103-036----, GA103-037001- and GA103-037002-).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.