Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Fawnglass, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fawnglass
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80294, -9.95841
- SMR number
- MA085-044----
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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
Situated on the N side of the valley that runs westwards from the Island’s harbour. The site lies on a gentle S-facing slope just outside the eastern boundary of the garden of a newly built house. The fulacht fia comprises a large mass of heat-fractured stone (L c. 7.5m × T c. 0.5m) exposed in E face of a recently deepened and widened stream channel that runs N–S immediately outside the garden boundary. The mass of stone peters out at the S end, but at the N end it terminates just before two large boulders that project from the stream bank. The ground surface in the vicinity is much disturbed and/or obscured by dumps of spoil. The mass of stone rests on c. 0.5m of peat that in turn overlies a gravelly subsoil that forms the stream bed. Little is visible in the western bank of the stream but this is largely over- grown with vegetation.
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
References
Gosling, P., Manning, C. and Waddell, J. (eds.) 2007 New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5: Archaeology. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.