Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lugdoon, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lugdoon
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23593, -8.79955
- SMR number
- SL018-090001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a small island of firm ground surrounded by wet, marshy land, within a small steep-sided valley. A roughly circular raised area (diam. 12m; H 0.8m), with a central hollow , composed of sandstone fragments within a matrix of charcoal-rich soil. Another fulacht fia (SL018-090002-) is located 2m SSE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.