Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Poulnabrucky, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnabrucky
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05970, -9.16210
- SMR number
- CL005-190002-
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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 a ridge in rocky scrub beside a spring well and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-227004-). Noted by Tom Coffey c. 1994 (SMR file). A fulacht fia comprising a low horseshoe-shaped grass-covered mound (5.2m NW-SE; 6.8m NNE-SSW; H 0.6-0.8m) opening (L 2m; Wth 1.2m; D 0.4m) to NW where a temporary stream flows. Some large stones are visible around its edge to the S. A second fulacht fia (CL005-190----) is located c. 5m to the NW on the far side of the stream.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.