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
- 53.91261, -9.17140
- SMR number
- MA070-107001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located near the lower E slopes of a ridge in rushy grazing and to SSW of three fulachta fia (MA070-106001-, MA070-106002- and MA070-106003-). A deposit of burnt stone and ash (max. dims. L 4.2m N-S; Wth 2m E-W; D 1.5m) is visible in the section faces on both sides of a boundary drain.
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
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.