Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Muingbaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muingbaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15213, -8.23176
- SMR number
- GA117-099----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying pastureland, c. 25m to the NW of a stream. This fulacht fia was accidently bulldozed and as a result ‘some burnt stone and charcoal patches c. 5m E-W by c. 2m N-S’ were revealed, as well as 'an area c. 1m square of yellow dobe at centre-south of same’ (pers. comm. E. Rynne). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 26 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.