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, -9.07778
- SMR number
- CL006-081003-
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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 the S of a small E-flowing stream on low-lying level pastureland from which a low but steep-sided ridge rises to S. A small, circular, grass-covered mound of burnt stone (3.2m N–S; 3m E–E; H 0.9m). The E end is overgrown with briar and thorn. There are three more fulachtaí fia in this cluster, one 10m to the N on the other side of the stream (CL006-081001-), another 5m to the W (CL006-081002-) and the final one 10m to the SW (CL006-081004-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
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.