Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cashel Upper, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel Upper
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91368, -9.17073
- SMR number
- MA070-106002-
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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 level rush-covered rough grazing at the foot of an E-facing pasture ridge, with a deepened field drain running N-S c. 10m to the W and c. 210m to the W of the N-flowing Clydagh River. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). A low, grass-covered, kidney-shaped mound (L 8m N-S; 6m E-W; av. H 0.3m) with a shallow depression (D 0.15m; L 3m N-S; 2m E-W) – the location of a possible trough – facing W. A second fulacht fia (MA070-106001-) lies c. 50m to the E and there is a possible burnt spread (MA070-106003-) c. 50m to the NNW.
Date of visit: 7-3-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
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.