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Fulacht fia

Murrooghtoohy North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Murrooghtoohy North, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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