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
- 53.07768, -9.07787
- SMR number
- CL006-081004-
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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
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 classic horseshoe-shaped burnt mound (11.6m NE–SW; Wth 4.7m; H 0.9m) open to the W. A livestock track reveals its composition. There are three more fulachtaí fia in this cluster, two (CL006-081002- and CL006-081003-) are c. 6m to the N and one (CL006-081001-) is c. 13m NE on the N side of the stream.
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.