Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06866, -8.36463
- SMR number
- SL040-030003-
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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 a wetland area, on the W side of a road. One of a cluster of six sites (SL040-030002-; SL040-031002-; SL040-031003-; SL040-230001-; SL040-230002-) found during monitoring of the realignment of the N4 road from Hollybrook Estate to Castlebaldwin in the Summer of 1998 (Desmond 1998, 10). This possible fulacht fia was revealed in section by machinery under a layer of recently redeposited peat (D 1.6m). It measured 3.6m in length, had a domed profiled and consisted of loose blackened soil (D 0.7m) with a high concentration of heat-shattered stone with area of reddened burnt soil also containing heat cracked stones and small pebbles. Some of the mound material had been removed by machinery prior to inspection. Following recording the site was covered with geo-textile, peat and topsoil and remains undisturbed. Another possible fulacht fia (SL040-030002-) lies c. 4m to W; a possible enclosure (SL040-030001-) lies c. 50m to N. (Desmond 2000, 183-4)
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.