Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Aderg, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aderg
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74264, -8.74114
- SMR number
- MA103-073----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 rough, damp rush-grown pasture. Ground rises gently to S and falls away to N towards a large drain/stream. There is a low hillock a few meters to SE.
Sod-covered, kidney-shaped mound (13m N–S; 8.3m E–W; H 0.45m at S, 0.55m at N) with a pronounced central depression extending E−W across the width of the mound. The depression is deepest at W, possibly indicating the location of a trough. Underlying a covering layer of sod and brown soil, the mound is composed of characteristic concentrations of heat-shattered stone in a charcoal-rich matrix. Narrow linear depressions on a NE−SW axis, possibly cultivation ridges, traverse the top of the mound. There is a field drain 5m to E. Another fulacht fia (MA03-068----) c. 200m to E.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.