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Fulacht fia

Carrowgilpatrick, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Carrowgilpatrick, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowgilpatrick
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.22437, -8.65071
SMR number
SL019-248----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In wet pasture, located in a sheltered hollow adjacent to a natural spring, at the base of a ridge slope on the W side of a flat-bottomed valley. One of several fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of 1.5km along the base of the valley.
at the base of an E-facing slope adjacent to a NE-flowing stream/drain. When first visited this appeared as a sod-covered, compact sub-circular mound (15.4m NE-SW; 13m NW-SE; H 0.8m at NE, 1.4m at SW) composed of heat-shattered stone in a charcoal-rich matrix (OPW field notes 1994). The trough may have been located on the N side where the mound is lower and slightly slumped. The mound was partly levelled during land reclamation in 1995. There is a burnt mound (SL019-249----) 8m to E, and another burnt mound (SL019-215----) is 10m to S.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 12 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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