Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockatemple, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatemple
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89354, -9.10263
- SMR number
- MA071-212----
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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 in wet, rush-grown pasture, with a stream/drain c. 15m to NE. There is a natural rise immediately to SW of the mound.
A compact, circular mound (9.7m N–S; 9.5m E–W; H 0.25m at S, 0.6m at N) with a slight depression to ESE which may mark the location of the trough. It is distinguished by a covering of short green grass amidst the surrounding concentration of rushes. Another fulacht fia (MA071-213----) is located 5m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.