Mooresfort

Seen to fall in 1810 in Ireland · 3.5 kg recovered · H5

Mooresfort is the earliest of the four falls recorded in Ireland. It is the second-heaviest of the three H5 falls recorded in Ireland. Dundrum came down only 23 km to the north-east, in 1865.

Group: H chondrites
Recorded position: 52.450° N, 8.333° W

The map is centred on Mooresfort. Rings every 100 km; numbers match the table below.

Nearest recorded falls

Within 250 km lie three other recorded falls.

#	Fall	Year	Class	Recovered	Distance
1	Dundrum	1865	H5	2.3 kg	23 km north-east
2	Limerick	1813	H5	50 kg	33 km north-west
3	Leighlinbridge	1999	L6	271 g	95 km east
4	Killeter	1844	H6	140 g	250 km north
5	Bovedy	1969	L3	5.5 kg	270 km north-east
6	Pontlyfni	1931	Winonaite	157 g	278 km east

What H5 means

H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Mooresfort ranks 75th of the 159 H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Dundrum in Ireland, 23 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Mooresfort is Timochin (1807, Russia) and the one after is Borodino (1812, Russia).

Dark ticks: 159 H5 falls, median 3 kg (dotted). Grey: all others.

Mooresfort in Ireland’s record

By recovered mass Mooresfort comes second of 4 there. The next fall recorded in Ireland is Limerick, in 1813.

Bigger dots carry more recovered mass.

The 1810s

Mooresfort is one of 24 falls dated to the 1810s. Elsewhere, the record lists two other falls in 1810: Charsonville in France, Caswell County in the United States.