Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballynamanagh West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamanagh West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22336, -8.93328
- SMR number
- GA103-043----
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
In low-lying pastureland prone to flooding, c. 20m to the N of a spring. This low grassed-over mound (c. 10m ENE-WSW; c. 6.5m NNW-SSE; H 0.6m) is roughly oval in plan. A similar mound (GA103-043001-) lies c. 45m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.