Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyart, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyart
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90834, -9.19128
- SMR number
- MA070-095----
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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 the damp corner of a field on the lower NW slope of a pasture ridge. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). A low roughly circular stony hummock (max. H 0.2m; diam. 6m) is overgrown with heavy grass and rush cover.
Date of visit: 1-11-2024
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.