Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Classaghroe, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Classaghroe
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77521, -8.74448
- SMR number
- MA093-109----
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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
In the NE corner of a pasture field, located in lowlying marshy ground. This fulacht fia was discovered in 2002 during archaeological assessment (02E0522) on the Ballyhaunis Water Supply Augmentation Scheme. The fulacht fia is evident as a crescent-shaped mound (12m E-W; 11m N-S; H 1m). It lay outside the pipeline wayleave was not impinged on by the scheme (Guinan 2014, 6).
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
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.