Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballysallagh (tuite), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysallagh (tuite)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57828, -7.50771
- SMR number
- WM011-111----
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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
Situated on wet poorly drained land with stream immediately to NW. One of a group of six fulacht fia, three in Ballysallagh (Tuite) townland (WM011-111001-/002-) and three in Balroe (WM011-012----/001-/002-). A large grass-covered mound (dims. 10.2m N-S; 12.6m E-W; H 0.5m) with a U-shaped trough area (4.1m N-S; 6.7m E-W) opening to N. A field fence, which is also the townland boundary with Balroe intersects perimeter of the site at SE. Now located inside modern coniferous plantation visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Listed as 1d in ASI field report and site plan.
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.