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
- 53.80741, -9.94589
- SMR number
- MA085-055----
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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 on an E-facing slope in enclosed grazing land overlooking Kinnacorra Point. The fulacht fia comprises a badly disturbed lens cut through by a narrow modern drain that channels a small shallow stream (D c. 0.5m). At a point where the drain bifurcates, a lens of small heat-fractured angular stones is exposed intermittently (SSW–NNE c. 3m, WNW–ESE c. 2.25m) in both of its roughly cut faces. Scatters of burnt stone are also visible on both banks amid a myriad of small boulders that have also been cast up from the drain.
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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.