Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Raheen Oughter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen Oughter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18666, -8.62650
- SMR number
- GA105-175----
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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
In low-lying marshy ground c. 60m to the N of a stream. On inspection in October 1982 this fulacht fia consisted of two low mounds, c. 1m apart, composed of black earth and burnt stone. The N mound (4.7m E-W; 2.6m N-S; H 0.5m) was better preserved than the S one (3.5m E-W; 1.8m N-S; H 0.3m). Current OSi aerial photographic imagery indicates that a house now occupies this site. Two other fulachta fia lay c. 20m to the S (GA105-175001-) and c. 75m to the SW (GA105-175001-) respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.