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Fulacht fia

Cunnagher South, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Cunnagher South, 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
Cunnagher South
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.92070, -9.23136
SMR number
MA070-008005-

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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 a narrow strip of level pasture between a small S-slowing stream to the W and the foot of a pasture ridge to the E.  Reported as one of six possible fulachta fiadh (along with MA070-008001-, MA070-008002-, MA070-008003-, MA070-008004- and MA070-008006-) running in a more or less N-S line (L c. 200m) near the E bank of a small N-flowing stream, and described as, “a circular mound, hollow in the centre” (SMR file). It survives as a low, subcircular circular, stony mound (diams. 13m N–S; 11m E–W: H 0.4m at SW – 0.8m at S), surrounded by rushes with an abundance of nettles along its W edge, which is the least well defined. It contains a rush-covered rectangular area (L 6m NW-SE; Wth 2m; D 0.3m) which is open towards the NW

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 30-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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