TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Fulacht fia

Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Oughtmama, 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
Oughtmama
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.12119, -9.03279
SMR number
CL003-050----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, located adjacent to a spring on a rocky terrace on the S-facing slope of Oughtmama Hill. The N side of the terrace is defined by a low, vertical face of limestone outcropping. The spring rises from the base of these rocks, 7m to NE of the fulacht fia, and flows to SSW past the E side of the fulacht fia. Compact, well-defined kidney-shaped mound (diam. c. 10m; H 05-0.6m at N, c. 0.8m at S) composed of a dense concentration of small and medium-sized limestone fragments in a matrix of black, charcoal-rich soil. A central depression (2m E–W; 1.5m N–S), open to the stream at E, indicating the location of the trough. There are expanses of natural, flat limestone pavement adjacent to the mound at S and NW.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 1 September 2014

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Fulacht fia in Clare All County Clare records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map