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Fulacht fia

Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Keelhilla, 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
Keelhilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.08486, -9.00159
SMR number
CL006-023007-

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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

At the interface between an expanse of grassland and a hazel wood, c. 200m E of the foot of the E-facing cliffs of Slieve Carran. There is damp ground immediately to W, and a spring, with a holy well (CL006-023005-), is located c. 40-45m to W within the hazel wood. This fulacht fia is evident as a roughly circular, compact, grass-covered mound (diam. 9-10m; H 0.5-0.8m). In parts where the sod has been eroded, dense concentrations of small limestone fragments, in a matrix of dark grey soil, are visible. The mound is highest and most clearly defined at E–SE. It is lower and more broadly slumped on the W side, possibly indicating the location of the trough. A hawthorn tree grows out of the NE edge of the mound, and a second hawthorn stands close to the mound at S, beside a large boulder which rest on the edge of the mound. The boulder appears to be part of a ruined field wall, on a roughly E–W axis, which skirts the SE–S edge of the mound.

Attached image:
CL006-023007-_01 fulacht fia viewed from S

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 24 June 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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