Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Capnagower, County Mayo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.