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Fulacht fia

Pollsharvoge, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Pollsharvoge, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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