Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Cappagh (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappagh (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05915, -8.99692
- SMR number
- CL006-246----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a broad flat terrace on the lower W-facing slope of Turloughmore Mountain. A compact horseshoe-shaped mound (9m N−S; 8m E−W; H 0.95m) with a shallow central hollow (c. 2m N−S; c. 2.5m E−W) opening to E onto a small pool (3.7m N−S; 1.8m E−W) fed by a spring which issues from the base of a low bedrock cliff. The mound is composed of a dense concentration of heat-shattered limestone fragments in grey/black soil.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL006-246----_01.jpg Overall view from S
CL006-246----_02.jpg View from SE
CL006-246----_03.jpg View from N
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.