Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockycallanan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockycallanan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11337, -9.03852
- SMR number
- CL003-051----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
In pasture, located adjacent to a spring on a rocky terrace on the lower N-facing slope of Turlough Hill. The S side of the terrace is defined by a rocky cliff face from the base of which the spring rises. At the N edge of the terrace, the ground falls away in a broad slope of limestone pavement/outcropping to the base the hill. A small concrete well house, which taps into the spring, is located c. 10m to N of the fulacht fia. Sod-covered, roughly crescent-shaped mound (c. 10-11m N–S; c. 5m E–W; H c. 0.5m) composed of a dense concentration of small, limestone fragments in a matrix of dark brown-black soil. On the E side is a shallow depression, indicating the likely location of the trough. This faces an area of wet ground fed by the spring, which rises 3m to SE at the base of a rock face. A slight indentation is also evident on the SW side of the mound, also bordered by wet ground. Expanses of natural limestone pavement lie adjacent to the mound at N and E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 September 2014
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.