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Fulacht fia

Knockalegan (Kilmaine By.), County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Knockalegan, 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
Knockalegan (Kilmaine By.)
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.67288, -9.08703
SMR number
MA111-104002-

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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 average pasture, located on a gently W–facing slope bordering an expanse of flat reclaimed pasture and rush-grown, boggy ground which stretches to W–NW.
A low, roughly kidney-shaped rise (c. 11.5m N–S; c. 13m E–W) with a central depression opening to W. The mound appears to have been partly levelled; it is highest and most clearly defined at S but elsewhere its exact limits area difficult to trace. An eroded section of the mound revealed a compacted concentration of stone fragments in black soil. There is a burnt mound (MA111-104001-) c. 15m to N, and two burnt mounds (MA111-097----; MA111-098----) are located c. 100m to NW and c. 95m to NNE, respectively.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 9 March 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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