Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Doonflin Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonflin Upper
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23123, -8.76626
- SMR number
- SL018-091001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in wet, marshy pasture at the base of an E-W ridge, 10m SE of a NE–SW field drain. This comprises a well-defined, horseshoe-shaped mound (10m NE-SW; 7.5m NW-SE; H 0.6m). The hollow area (Wth 2.9m) is at NW. There is another fulacht fia (SL018-091----) c. 30m to SW, a burnt mound (SL018-091002-) c. 35m to NE, and another burnt mound (SL018-091003-) c. 15m to NW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.