Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Barnacahoge, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnacahoge
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90457, -8.85780
- SMR number
- MA072-116----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a flat expanse of wet, boggy pasture, located on the W bank of a stream in a steep-sided valley, close to the rising slope of the W side of the valley.
A low, grass-covered crescent-shaped mound (5.4m E−W; 3.5m N−S) composed of heat-shattered stones in black charcoal-rich soil, enclosing a shallow hollow (Wth 1.8m E-W) on the S side. The hollow, which probably indicates the position of the trough, is marked by thick growth of rushes.
A N−S field wall now lies between the mound and the stream, and there is an E−W field wall immediately to S of the mound.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.