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
- 54.25003, -9.22712
- SMR number
- MA015-084004-
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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
Located in a shallow basin of damp, rush grown pasture 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 visible as a low, roughly C-shaped rise (c. 8m N-S; c. 6m E-W; H 0.5m) with a hollow area at W. It is composed of shattered, angular stone fragments in a black soil matrix. A NNE-SSW field wall clips the W edge of the mound, and a cattle track extends E-W through the centre.
There is a burnt mound (MA015-084003-) 8m to W, a possible burnt mound (MA015-084002-) c. 30m ESE, and another fulacht fia (MA015-084001-) c. 55m to SE. There is a fulacht fia (MA015-083----) 85m to SSE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.