Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballincurry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01026, -8.73846
- SMR number
- SL043-006002-
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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 wet pasture, c. 40m ESE of a burnt spread (SL043-006001-). A low oval mound (8m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE; H c. 0.4m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil, indented slightly at NW. A fulacht fia (SL043-005----) lies c. 100m to NW and a possible fulacht fia (SL043-007----) lies c. 100m to SE.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.