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Fulacht fia

Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Keelhilla, 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
Keelhilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09081, -8.99147
SMR number
CL006-248----

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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

At the S end of a sheltered, shallow grassy depression (c. 30m across) which is surrounded by a raised rim of rock outcrop at S, W and N and is open at E to a flat expanse of karstic pavement. It is overlooked to W by the steep cliffs of Eagle’s Rock which form the E side of Slieve Carran ridge/Gortaclare Mountain and is within the Keelhilla/Slievecarran Nature Reserve (Burren National Park). A low, crescent-shaped mound (10m NE−SW; 6m NW−SE; H 0.65m at SW, 0.75m at SW) enclosing a damp central hollow (2.2m NW−SE; 1.7m NE−SW; D 0.5m) which opens to NW where the ground is wet and soggy in parts. The mound is composed of a dense concentration limestone fragments in dark grey/black soil.

The following images have been uploaded:

CL006-248----_01.jpg Overall view from S
CL006-248----_02.jpg view from S
CL006-248----_03.jpg View from N

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 10 November 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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