Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lecarrowkilleen, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrowkilleen
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56692, -9.24522
- SMR number
- MA121-197001-
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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 western corner of a damp, rush-grown pasture field, located adjacent to a stream. A roughly horse-shoe shaped grassy mound (10.4m NNE/SSW, 2.7m WNW-ESE; max. H 0.7m), with an opening to the west indicating the position of the trough (pers. comm. R. Crumlish 2010). There is a possible fulacht fia (MA121-097002) 1m to S.
Attached photograph (MA121-197001_01) is courtesy of Mr. R. Crumlish, taken in April 2010.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 21 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.