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
- 53.21661, -8.92806
- SMR number
- GA103-036----
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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
On marshy ground at the foot of a steep slope on the N side of a broad shallow valley, some 210m to the NNW of another fulacht fia (GA103-035----). This fulacht fia is defined by a low grassy oval mound (11m NNE-SSW; 8m ESE-WNW; H 0.7 max.) that is cut through on the N side by a grass-covered trench running on a ESE-WNW axis. No discernible trace of the trough area is evident unless it is in the area disturbed by the trench. Two other fulachta fia (GA103-037001- and GA103-037002-) lie c. 210m and c. 220m to the SSW respectively.
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.