Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lough Rea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Rea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19466, -8.58938
- SMR number
- GA105-228001-
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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
Located in the NW sector of Lough Rea on what appears to be an earlier shoreline of the lake at a depth of approximately 1.3m. This possible fulacht fia, the most easterly example of two (see also GA105-228002-), was noted during a survey of the nearby crannog (GA105-197----) c. 120m to the SE. It consists of two conjoined shallow circular mounds, one larger (13m E-W and 9m N-S) than the other. Due to a heavy swell which stirred up sediment it was not possible to measure the smaller one. However, a central rectangular feature was noted within it. Its appearance suggests this is possibly a fulacht fia but it may be a hut site (information from K. McDonald).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.