Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Barnabrack, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnabrack
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21797, -8.62172
- SMR number
- SL019-230----
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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
In a thicket of deciduous trees and overgrowth, situated within a small basin of marshy ground fed by springs and enclosed by higher ground from SE-W. A flat-topped, circular mound (19.8m E-W; 19.3m N-S; H 0.55m at S; 0.7m at N) composed of densely packed, shattered sandstone within a charcoal-rich matrix. A hint of a depression on the lower SSE side of the mound probably indicates the location of the trough. The mound forms an island of sod-covered dry ground encircled by springs and soft, wet ground. There is a holy well (SL019:141001-) c. 10m to SW.
Attached image:
SL019-230----_01.JPG viewed from S
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.