Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Faherlaghroe, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faherlaghroe
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05201, -9.12263
- SMR number
- CL005-182----
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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 improved pasture on a W-facing slope with damp ground to the W. Noted by Tom Coffey (1994) as a 'mound of a destroyed wedge or other megalithic structure' (SMR file) and listed as ‘Megalithic Structure’ in the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1998 this was found to be a small subcircular stone and earth mound (3.8m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.4-0.6m), possibly a fulacht fia.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload:
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.