Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Gortaclare, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaclare
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07779, -9.07775
- SMR number
- CL006-081----
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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
To N of a small E-flowing stream on low-lying level pastureland from which a low but steep-sided ridge rises to S. A low, oval, grass-covered mound of burnt stone (11.4m E–W; 8.2m N–S; H max. 0.5m) with no obvious trough area. It is truncated at the W end by a roadside wall and a N–S depression across the centre caused by livestock reveals its composition. Stones from field clearance have been dumped on its W end.
There are three more fulachtaí fia (CL006-081002-, CL006-081003- and CL006-081004-) across the adjacent stream between 5 and 20m away.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.