Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Abbey West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12717, -9.05985
- SMR number
- CL003-028004-
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 gentle S-facing slope of rough grazing and outcropping rock from which numerous small spring wells emerge. Immediately NW of a fulacht fia (CL003-028001-). A low rectangular grass-covered mound of burnt stone (overall dims. 9m NW–SE x 4m; max. H 0.9m). A small spring well enclosed by low drystone walling lies 2m to its N. Another burnt mound (CL003-028003-) lies c. 10m SW and another fulacht fia (CL003-028002-) is c. 50m N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 15 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.