Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Acres (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Acres (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10996, -9.11703
- SMR number
- CL002-062----
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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 narrow level terrace of gently sloping W-facing bare rock (Wth 15m), near the SW foot of Moneen ‘Mountain’. Marked on Robinson’s (1977) map. A well-defined circular fulacht fia mound (14.6m N–S x 13.1m E–W; max. H 1.5m at N), with a depression on its upper surface (int. dims. 5.9m S–N x 5.1m E–W crest to crest; D 0.2–0.8m) and a short bank extending from its NE side (L 1m). A spring emerges from the base of a low bluff (H 1–1.5m) c. 3m to the E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.