Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Killeen (Tirawley By., Crossmolina Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (Tirawley By., Crossmolina Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.05706, -9.32501
- SMR number
- MA038-188----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, on the N bank of a stream, named Fiddaunglass, sheltered by rising ground to N.
A roughly circular, grass-covered mound (diam. 18m; H 0.7m at W, 1m at E) composed of heat-shattered stone fragments in charcoal-rich soil. A large stone protrudes from the top surface of the mound to N of centre. There is a slight depression at S; it is not clearly defined, but may indicate the location of a trough. A field drain clips the E edge of the mound, and an old E-W field bank intervenes between the mound and the stream which is 4m to S. This is one of a linear cluster of fulachtai fia/burnt mounds (see also MA038-189---- to MA038-197----) located along the course of the stream.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.