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
- 53.07772, -9.07785
- SMR number
- CL006-081002-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 S of a small E-flowing stream on low-lying level pastureland from which a low but steep-sided ridge rises to S. An oval mound of burnt stone (12.1m E–W; 7.8m N–S; H 1.1m) with a slight indentation at the E end of the N side probably indicating a trough area. Livestock have disturbed the N side of the mound revealing the composition. There are three more fulachtaí fia in this cluster, one 5m to the N on the other side of the stream (CL006-081001-) and two more, 5m to the E (CL006-081003-) and 15m (CL006-081004-) to the S.
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.