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
- 53.21485, -8.92917
- SMR number
- GA103-037002-
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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 2.5m to the S of another fulacht fia (GA103-037001-). This fulacht fia is defined by a large grassy mound (c. 10m NNE-SSW; c. 8m ESE-WNW; H c. 1.2m max.) that is cut by a field wall at NE and SW which obscures its plan. It appears to have originally been horseshoe-shaped opening towards the SSW. The mound has been partly disturbed to the SE of the wall where a large whitethorn bush is growing. Burnt stone has been exposed by cattle along the NW side.
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.