Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Steelaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Steelaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24922, -9.22694
- SMR number
- MA015-083----
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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 pasture, located on the W fringes of an expanse of wet ground that occupies a natural terrace on a SE-facing ridge slope. To NW the ground rises steeply to a ridge that dominates the skyline.
This fulacht fia is evident as a sod-covered, roughly crescent-shaped mound (10.5m N-S; c. 5-6m E-W; H 0.35m) which curves around a possible trough area on its the E side. It is composed of a dense concentration of stone fragments in black soil. Shorter grass growth and fewer rushes distinguish it from the surrounding field.
A burnt mound (MA015-082----) is located 150m to SW, and there is a cluster of fulachtai fia/burnt mounds (MA015-084001- to MA015-084004-) c. 85m to N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.