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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
53.12740, -9.03442
SMR number
CL003-060----

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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 grassy terrace on the W-facing slopes of Oughtmama hill. A compact, roughly crescent-shaped mound (8.5m E-W; 7.3m N-S; H 0.7-0.8m) formed of limestone fragments in a matrix of dark soil. Noted by Jane O’Shaughnessy. The mound curves slightly on its S side around a circular depression (c. 3.5m E-W; c. 3.5m N-S) which is outlined by a rough, gapped setting of low, upright slabs. The slabs form a double row in places and most tilt inwards towards the centre of the depression. Two springs are adjacent, emerging from the bedrock to the E, one immediately NE and the other 2-3m to the SE, both of which are enclosed by arcs of loose stone.

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

 

Date of upload: 22 October 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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