Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lack East, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lack East
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91907, -9.18500
- SMR number
- MA070-047002-
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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
Just W of a streamlet in wet rough grazing at the N foot of a pasture ridge. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). Identified by the landowner: a roughly circular mound of grass-covered burnt stone (diam. 9m; H 0.2- 0.8m). A poorly defined possible burnt spread (MA070-047001-) lies 24m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Date of upload: 4-11-2025
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.