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
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05727, -9.33035
- SMR number
- MA038-191----
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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 an expanse of flat, damp pasture bordering the N side of the Fiddaunglass stream.
A low, grass-covered roughly kidney-shaped mound (6m N-S; c. 5m E-W; H 0.35m) of angular stone fragments in dark soil, with a possible trough area on the E side. One of a linear cluster of fulachtaí fia/burnt mounds (see MA038-189---- to MA038-194----) located along the course of the stream, one (MA038-190----) of which is located 10m to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.