Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
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
- 53.91409, -9.17073
- SMR number
- MA070-106003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 near the foot of an E-facing pasture ridge. Visible in the N and W-facing section faces of a field drain where it turns sharply at right-angles from draining N to drain E to the N-flowing Clydagh River c. 230m away to the E. A layer of burnt stone and ash (T 0.4m) is traceable for c. 4m in the W-facing section of the drain (where it drains N) and is traceable for c. 10m in the contiguous N-facing section of the drain (where it drains E). It is not obviously visible in the opposite section faces of the drain. The layer is sealed below a layer of daub-like clay (T 0.2m) with a thin sod layer above (T 0.08m). A fulacht fia (MA070-106002-) lies c. 50m to the SSE and there is a second fulacht fia (MA070-106001-) c. 85m to the SE.
Date of visit: 7-3-2025
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.