Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Oughtmama, County Clare, Ireland
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----
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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
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.