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Fulacht fia

Aghawinnaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Aghawinnaun, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Aghawinnaun
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.08979, -9.03658
SMR number
CL006-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Adjacent to a spring well, on a narrow terrace towards the base of the NW-facing slope of Gortaclare Mountain. The spring issues from the base of the low bedrock scarp which backs the SE side of the terrace. Indicated on the 1916 OS 6-inch map as a small circular hachured feature with the symbol for a well immediately to the SW. A compact horseshoe-shaped mound (c. 16m NW-SE; 14.5m NE-SW; H 0.8-1.2m at E-SE; 1.4-1.5m at W-NW) with a shallow, central U-shaped depression (L 4m NE-SW; Wth 2.5-3m at SW) opening to SW onto the source of the spring, which now flows past the mound to NNW. The mound is composed of a dense concentration of heat-shattered limestone fragments in a matrix of black, charcoal-rich soil; this burnt material is exposed in parts where the thin sod cover on the mound has been eroded. A number of large stones/boulders protrude from the SW arm of the mound.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL006-020----_01.jpg View from SE
CL006-020----_02.jpg View from N
CL006-020----_03.jpg Central depression from NE
CL006-020----_04.jpg Spring well at SW side of mound

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 9 November 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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