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Fulacht fia

Cappagh (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Cappagh, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cappagh (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06536, -9.00994
SMR number
CL006-129----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

One of two fulachtaí fia at the base of a rocky vertical outcrop in an area with dense hazel growth. A natural spring is located between the two sites. The view is restricted by the outcrop to the N and by mature vegetation to the S and W. A roughly horseshoe-shaped mound (c. 10m NE-SW; c. 8.5m NW-SE; H 1.8m) open to the SE towards the spring. Remains of a trough are visible. A second fulacht (CL006-129001-) is located c. 18m to the SE. This fulacht fia was located by Elaine Lynch in 2023 during work on the Field Monument Advisory scheme. A number of fulachtaí fia were reported at c. ITM 532346, 701997 (ING 132390, 201970) in 1996 (pers. comm. T. Coffey, SMR file) and listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Fulachta Fiadh’. It is likely given the absence of GPS at the time that these are the sites in question. 
 
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
 
Date of upload: 4 November 2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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