Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Rathmacostello, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmacostello
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.07778, -9.37015
- SMR number
- MA038-178----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, in a sheltered damp location on the W side of a spring that rises at the base of a slope and flows into the River Deel 15m to N.
This fulacht fia is evident as an elongated, roughly crescent-shaped mound (c. 13m NE-SW; c. 6m NW-SE; H 0.4m) of shattered sandstone in charcoal-rich soil. The curve of the mound encompasses a slight depression on the W side, which may be the location of a trough. The E side of the mound is incorporated into the line of a field bank on N-S axis. Past disturbance to the mound has given it a somewhat irregular shape, and its exact original plan and extend are uncertain. It is covered in mossy sod and heather.
Another fulacht fia (MA038-176----) is located 7m to E, on the opposite side of the spring, and a burnt mound (MA038-179---) is 15m to NW. There is a rath (MA038-033----) is 15m upslope to S.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.