Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Shancarrigeen Or Oldrock, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shancarrigeen Or Oldrock
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06812, -8.56499
- SMR number
- SL039-158001-
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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 the SW edge of a flat expanse of wet ground covered with rushes. A large prominent circular mound (16.3m N-S; 17m E-W; H 1m at N, 0.5m at S) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil. Another possible fulacht fia (SL039-158002-) lies 12m to NNE.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.