Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lecarrow (murrisk By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrow (murrisk By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80669, -9.96393
- SMR number
- MA085-008003-
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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
Situated at the foot of a steep rise and immediately W of a small level patch of marshy ground and NW of the fulacht fia are the foundations of a circular house (MA085-008002-). The fulacht fia comprises a small and low grassy mound, roughly ovate in plan (N–S c. 2.7m, E–W c. 3.2m, H c. 0.4m), but with faint traces of a tail-like feature extending to NNW. A slight indentation on south-south-western side of the mound may indicate the position of the trough. Some burnt stone is in evidence on its summit. A geophysical survey was carried out on this monument in 1993. The magnetic susceptibility results indicated the presence of a ‘high’ immediately to NNE of the existing mound, showing that that the monument has the classic horse-shape of many fulactai fia (see Slater 1996, labelled MN 6).
The above description is derived from: New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Edited by Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 2007). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Date of upload: 29 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.