Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Dernish Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dernish Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.42045, -8.50099
- SMR number
- SL002-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough, damp pasture, at the base of a W-facing slope on the SW side of Dernish Island, 8m WNW of a spring well/Holy well (SL002-019----). The shoreline is 10m to W, bordered by a vertical scarp (H 2m) which drops from the land to a stony shore. This fulacht fia is evident as a very low, poorly defined sod-covered mound (6m N−S; 4m E−W; H 0.2-0.3m at E, 0.4m at W) of angular stone fragments in dark grey/black soil. It appears to have a shallow crecentic shape, curving around a slight hollow (Wth c. 1-1.5m) on the E side. Its compact, firm surface distinguishes it from the surrounded soft, damp ground.
Image:
SL002-055----_01.JPG Viewed from W
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.