Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Pollsharvoge, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollsharvoge
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95966, -9.00897
- SMR number
- MA061-228----
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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, located immediately to S of a spring. A road (N26) borders the N side of the field.
This fulacht fia was discovered during archaeological test trenching (Licence no. 19E0201) in advance of a road realignment scheme (Gillespie 2019). It consists of a subsurface layer or mound (6.5m E-W; 11.5m N-S; D c. 1m) of heat-shattered stone fragments in a charcoal-rich soil matrix, which appears to rest on natural boulder clay. A later curving field drain cuts across the N edge of the mound.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 January 2022
References
Gillespie, R. 2019 2019:125 Pollsharvoge and Cloongullaun. Excavations.ie Database of Irish Excavation Reports. www.excavations.ie
Nearby in the register
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.