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Fulacht fia

Capnagower, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Capnagower, 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
Capnagower
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.80792, -9.94801
SMR number
MA085-049----

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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 c. 20m NW of an enclosure (MA085-054----) on north-eastern side of a marshy basin. The fulacht fia comprises of an oblong grass-covered cairn (N–S 7.5m, E–W 5.7m, H c. 1.6m max. on the southern side) of loose, medium-sized stone, much of it apparently derived from field clearance. However, quite a number of the smaller stones that protrude from its surface display traces of heat fractures. On its north-eastern and north-western sides, the base of the cairn is abutted by broad but short (stunted) tillage ridges that run on a NE–SW axis from the cairn to the edge of the marshy basin. The burnt stone is likely to be derived from a fulacht fia destroyed by the tillage ridges, or part of a fulacht fia mound on to which field clearance has been heaped.

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

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

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