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Fulacht fia

Aughiska More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Aughiska More, 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
Aughiska More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01505, -9.32582
SMR number
CL008-134----

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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

In pasture and partly overlain by a modern NE-SW road. Identified in 1999 by Ken Hanley during monitoring of pipe works on the Lisdoonvarna Water Supply Scheme (Licence No. 99E0199). This fulacht fia (est. L 8.5m; Wth 8m; H 0.2-0.5m) is visible as a low kidney-shaped mound in the field to the N of the road. A limited portion (L 1-2m; Wth c. 0.5m) of the continuation of the mound to the S was exposed during monitoring and was excavated (Hanley 2000). It comprised a thin layer (T 0.02-0.1m) of dark, heat-shattered stones overlying natural subsoil, and covered by road bedding (T 0.4-0.5m) (ibid.).

Reference
Hanley, K. 2000 Lisdoonvarna water supply scheme. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 18, No. 58. Bray. Wordwell.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of revision: 26 April 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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