Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Balroe, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balroe
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57810, -7.50612
- SMR number
- WM011-112001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
One of a group of six fulacht fia, three in Ballysallagh (Tuite) townland (WM011-111----/001-/002-) and three in Balroe (WM011-012----/001-/002-). No surface remains of fulacht fia located on reclaimed grassland as visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 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.