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
- 53.21487, -8.92917
- SMR number
- GA103-037001-
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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
Some 175m to the W of another fulacht fiadh (GA103-035----), close to the N bank of a small stream in a broad shallow valley, which opens out to the sea a short distance to the SW. This fulacht fia consists of a roughly horseshoe-shaped grassy mound (13m N-S; c. 12m E-W; H c. 1.1m) opening towards the E. It is well defined from S to W; elsewhere its limits are marked by a change of vegatation. The position of the trough area is marked by nettle growth. There is another fulacht fia (GA103-037003-) c. 2.5m to the S.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.