What is recorded here
Situated on the edge of a swampy hollow in wet ground 120m NE of fulacht fiadh (WM011-111---) and 36m NNE of fulacht fiadh (WM011-111001-). One of a group of six fulacht fia, three in Ballysallagh (Tuite) townland (WM011-111----/001-) and three in Balroe (WM011-012----/001-/002-). A low oval-shaped earth and stone mound (8.7m ESE-WNW; 7.5m NNE-SSW; H 0.6m). A field fence intersects the perimeter of the mound at NNW. Now located in modern coniferous plantation 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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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