Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Aghawinnaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghawinnaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10441, -9.02913
- SMR number
- CL006-076----
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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 a narrow terrace (Wth 10m) towards the base of the S-facing slope of Turlough Hill. The terrace is backed at N by a low rock face and a spring issues from its base. A substantial, compact horseshoe-shaped mound (c. 14m N−S; 12m E−W) of burnt stones, enclosing a central depression which opens to the spring at E. The mound is composed of a dense concentration of small limestone fragments in black, charcoal-rich soil, which is exposed in parts where the thin sod covered is eroded. The U-shaped central depression (6m E−W; 3m N−S at E end; D below N arm 1.18m; below S arm 0.6m) is narrow at W and splays open at E where it faces the spring. A kerb of low, close-set or contiguous upright stones, protruding 0.25-0.3m above the sod, defines the curving narrow W end of the depression. The spring is currently used as a source of water; a number of large boulders have been piled around it. Another fulacht fia (CL006-021----) lies c. 700m to S and is visible from this site.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL007-076----_01.jpg View from SE
CL007-076----_02.jpg View from S
CL007-076----_03.jpg View from NW
CL007-076----_04.jpg Kerb at W end of trough
CL007-076----_05.jpg Burnt stone and charcoal-rich soil exposed on E side of mound
Revised by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of revision: 9 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.