Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballynahown, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06651, -9.33816
- SMR number
- CL004-082----
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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 an upland karstic plateau, in a grassy bay bordered on its N side by a rising bedrock scarp from the base of which a number of springs issue, and within an extensive field system (CL004-027001-). A low, sod-covered flat-topped mound (10m N−S; 9m E−W; H 0.6m at SE) incorporating a shallow, poorly defined depression at NW, which is marked by richer grass growth and most likely indicates the location of the trough. The E−SE arc of the mound is well defined, the NW edge is lower and less distinct and the N edge abuts a rising rocky scarp. A concentration of limestone fragments in a matrix of black charcoal-rich soil is exposed on the eroded SE−S edge of the mound. A spring skirts the mound at E−S, flowing over the smooth surface of exposed limestone pavement, and continues to W where it merges with other springs in an area of damp, soggy ground. A number of close-set boulder line the edge of the stream immediately to W of the fulacht fia.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL004-082----_01.jpg View from E
CL004-082----_02.jpg View from S
CL004-082----_03.jpg View from NW
CL004-082----_04.jpg Burnt stone and charcoal exposed at S edge of mound
CL004-082----_05.jpg Row of large stones bordering the spring immediately W of the fulacht fia
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.