Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lackagh Beg, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackagh Beg
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulacht Fian
- Coordinates
- 53.16434, -6.97682
- SMR number
- KD022-019----
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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 level, wet rushy pasture at the S-foot of a very gentle slope, down which a small stream flows S just 10m to the E of the monument. A low, grass-covered, kidney-shaped mound (H 0.2-0.5m; basal dims. L 11.6m N-S; Wth 9.9m E-W; upper surface dims. L 5.1m N-S; Wth 3.7m E-W) has a shallow depression (D 0.3m; L 4m N-S; Wth 2.5m E-W) on its E-side, opening towards the E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 06 December 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.