Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cragballyconoal, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragballyconoal
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05913, -9.13344
- SMR number
- CL005-160037-
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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 exposed elevated rocky pasture within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). A fulacht fia comprising two parallel grass-covered hummocks (overall dims. 18m N-S; 13m E-W) with an intervening trench aligned NE-SW. A wall extends N-S over the W part of the monument. The fulacht is clearly visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). A second fulacht fia is located c. 60m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 30 September 2025
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.