Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Tooraree, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooraree
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77646, -8.77850
- SMR number
- MA093-043001-
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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
In pasture, located on flat ground flanking the S bank of the Mannin River, and overlooked by a low ridge 40m to SW.
Horseshoe-shaped mound (5m NE–SW; 4.6m NW–SE; H 0.35m) encompassing a central depression (diam. 1.2m) open to NW. The river bank lies 3m to NNE. A burnt mound and a possible fulacht fia (MA093-043004-; MA093-043005-) are located to NW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.