Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Gleninagh North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninagh North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13275, -9.19453
- SMR number
- CL002-010002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a small, narrow relatively level area with thin soil cover at the N foot of a moderately steep N facing rock strewn terrace. Listed as ‘Fulacht fia’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). An OS 6-inch map set annotated by T. Coffey reads ‘Small amount of burnt stone. Site of destroyed fulacht fia’ at this location (SMR file). On inspection in 1997 there were no visible remains. A 19th-century gothic well-house (CL002-010001-) surrounds a natural spring c. 20m to the N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.