Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07130, -9.13824
- SMR number
- CL005-149----
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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 elevated area of exposed karst and some grass cover with good views to the S and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). Listed as a cairn in the RMP (1996) and marked on Tim Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977) as a cairn. A fulacht fia heavily truncated by a farm track. The site is legible as a linear spread (L 11m; Wth 8m; D 0.1-0.15m) of burnt stone and ash flanking the track.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 20 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.