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Fulacht fia

Classaghroe, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Classaghroe, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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