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Fulacht fia

Abbey West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Abbey West, 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
Abbey West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1842)
Coordinates
53.12761, -9.05974
SMR number
CL003-028002-

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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

On a gentle S-facing slope of rough grazing and outcropping rock from which numerous small spring wells emerge. Hachured as a small mound on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). An oval mound of burnt stone (overall dims. 13.3m N–S x 9.2m E–W) defined by a low, narrow, round-topped grass-covered bank of burnt stone enclosing a small central trough area (E–W 2.4m x N–S 1.4m). Springs emerge from the ground immediately outside to the NW and from the base of low outcropping rock nearby to N. A telephone pole stands in the outer face of the bank to the SW. Another fulacht fia (CL003-028001-) is located c. 60m to the S and two burnt mounds (CL003-028003- and CL003-028004-) are c. 50m SW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 15 December 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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