Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Newtown (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09920, -9.17952
- SMR number
- CL005-171----
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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
On a shelf in rocky pasture on the lower SE slopes of Cappanawalla. Marked as a fulacht fia on Tom Coffey’s annotated SMR map (1994) and Tim Robinson’s map of the Burren (1999). Listed as a fulacht fia in the RMP (1996). An oval grass-covered stone and earth mound (4m NNW-SSE; 2m NE-SW) highest at the SSW (H 0.8m) lowering to the NNW (0.2m). There are no traces of burnt stone or other indications that this is a fulacht fia.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 8 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.