Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cashel Lower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel Lower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91923, -9.17281
- SMR number
- MA070-054----
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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
On the N bank of a deepened stream which marks the boundary between cut-away bog to the N and fair pasture to the S. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). A low grass-covered D-shaped mound (dims. 8.5m N-S; 10m E-W; H 0.1m) has an area of exposed burnt stone (L 4.5m E-W; D 1.2m) on is S limits adjacent to the stream.
Date of visit: 28-2-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.