Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Devlis, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Devlis
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75984, -8.75491
- SMR number
- MA093-108----
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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
This fulacht fia was discovered in 2002 during pipelaying on the Ballyhaunis Water Supply Augmentation Scheme. The portion of the fulacht fia (6m NE-SW; 7.6m SE-NW; max. D 0.29m) which lay within the pipeline wayleave was excavated (02E1777) (Guinan 2014, 1-14). The fulacht fia had been disturbed in the past by cultivation and drainage trenches. It consisted of a low, irregular-shaped mound of heat-shattered sandstone fragments in a matrix of charcoal-rich soil. An subrectangular, earth-cut trough (2.01m NNW-SSE; 1.19m ENE-WSW; D 0.4m) was located at the SW edge of the mound. A piece of struck chert was recovered. Radiocarbon analysis of two charcoal samples produced dates of 3320+/- 20 BP (1681-1657 cal BC) and 3335+/-45 BP (1736-1709 cal BC) which indicate use of the fulacht fia in the Middle Bronze Age (1700-1200 BC) (Ibid., 8-9). The W portion of the mound, which lay outside the pipeline wayleave, remains in situ. (Guinan 2014, 1-14).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 April 2016
References
Guinan, B. 2014 Archaeological investigations on the Ballyhaunis Water Supply Augmentation Scheme in county Mayo. Excavations in Devlis and Hazelhill. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 66, 1-14
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