Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballydonohoe (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydonohoe (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03994, -9.27823
- SMR number
- CL008-114----
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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
In undulating rough pastureland with limestone outcrops with wide views to S-W and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). Not listed in the SMR (1992) or the RMP (1996). Thought locally to be a fulacht fiadh, this site comprises a subcircular area (16.5m N-S; 14.5m E-W) defined by a broad, low bank (Wth 3-9m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.2-0.5m) of earth and stone, but no evidence of burnt stone was visible when inspected in 1998. The sunken, nettle-covered interior (6m E-W; 4.5m N-S) is lower (D c. 0.5m) than the surrounding ground outside.
Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.