Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Aghawinnaun, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.