Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.