Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Derrinlevaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrinlevaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81962, -9.32852
- SMR number
- MA078-071----
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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 pasture, located in a flat expanse of flat, rush-grown pasture. This fulacht fia is evident as a low, but clearly defined, grass-covered kidney-shaped mound (16m N–S; 13.5m E–W; H 0.4m), with an elongated central depression (6m E–W; 2m N–S) which opens to the W. The S lobe of the mound is higher and more pronounced that the N, giving the mound a slightly asymmetrical appearance. The mound is composed of a dense concentration of angular stone fragments in a matrix of black charcoal-rich soil.
Attached images:
MA078-071----_01.JPG Viewed from NE
MA078-071----_01.JPG Viewed from N
Notified to NMS by Dwayne Jordan.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
- Church1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.