Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Boihy, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boihy
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fulacht Fian
- Coordinates
- 54.26040, -8.24368
- SMR number
- LE011-074----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1943 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located at the bottom of a SW-facing slope on the floor of the Bonet River valley, with a small tributary of the river c. 130m to the W. This is a grass-covered, kidney-shaped, stony mound (dims 10.5m NE-SW; 9.5m NW-SE; H 0.2-0.6m) which has a trough area (dims 3.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW) at the NW side.
See the attached view from the N.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.