Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07150, -9.02838
- SMR number
- CL006-045003-
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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
On rough grazing beside a small S flowing stream which rises just to the N, at the N end of short valley overlooked to W, N and E by low hazel-clad limestone bluffs. The most N of three fulachtaí fia. A well-preserved, almost classic, horseshoe-shaped, grassed-over mound (ext. dims. 11.2m N–S; 8.9m E–W; max. H 0.6m), abutting a small stream at its open E end. A cattle track to the stream crosses the S limits of the mound and reveals its composition of burnt stone. Two other fulachtaí fia (CL006-045004- and CL006-045005-) lie c. 15m and 50m to the S and all three occur within the multiperiod field system (CL006-042001-) (Jones, Carey and Hennigar 2011, 42).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 27 July 2021
References
Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.