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
- 53.07134, -9.02836
- SMR number
- CL006-045004-
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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
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. A well-preserved horseshoe-shaped mound (ext. dims. 12.6m N–S; 6.2m E–W; max. H 0.6m). Two other fulachtaí fia (CL006-045003- and CL006-045005-) lie c. 5m to the N and 35m 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
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.