Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Mountirvine, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountirvine
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.02352, -8.56340
- SMR number
- SL039-111002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a slight terrace on a gentle NE-facing slope. A barely perceptible roughly circular mound (diam. c. 10m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil. There is a hut site (SL039-111----) c. 40m to NE and a possible fulacht fia (SL039-111001-) c. 70m to NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.