Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Murrooghtoohy North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murrooghtoohy North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14700, -9.26998
- SMR number
- CL001-007002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At the base of the W-facing slope of Black Head, on a slight S-facing slope c. 250m E of the seashore. A D-shaped mound (13.4m N–S; 13.6m E–W; H 0.6m–0.8m) of stone and black clay, with its straight side to the E, 2m from a cliff edge (H c.1.5m). It is flat topped except on its western edge where it rises slightly (Wth c.0.2m; H c.0.2m). Its D-shape may partially be the result of interference associated with the adjacent 18th/19th-century farmstead, and large stones around its perimeter may have been placed in an effort to contain it during that same phase of activity.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.