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Fulacht fia

Lecarrow (Murrisk By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Lecarrow, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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