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
- 53.07100, -9.02826
- SMR number
- CL006-045005-
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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 10m S of a stream which rises to the N, at the N end of short valley overlooked to W, N and E by low hazel-clad limestone bluffs. The most southerly of three fulachtaí fia in a N-S line. A small oval-shaped mound (ext. dims. 9.6m N–S; 6.3m E–W; max. H 0.6m) of grass-covered burnt stones, the composition of which is revealed in livestock hoof prints, backing onto a patch of low outcropping rock to E. A band of rushes runs outside the mound from W to NNE, potentially marking a small associated water course. Fulachtaí fia (CL006-045003- and CL006-045004-) lie c. 50m and 35m to the N 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.