Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Fanygalvan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanygalvan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01727, -9.11473
- SMR number
- CL009-084003-
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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 quite level ground within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-); the land rises from N to NE and slopes steeply c. 50m to the WSW into a ravine. This subcircular fulacht fia (c. 14.1m E-W; c. 11.5m N-S; c. H 1.2-2m) comprises a grass-covered mound of burnt stones and black soil with two disturbed arms (c. 4.8m N-S; each c. 1.1-1.7m E-W) extending to the N. The top of it (diam. 4.5m) is quite flat. At its N limits a ring of stones (diam. 4.8m E-W) protruding through sod cover probably marks the top of a stone-lined trough (see also Coffey 1990, 61). The two incurving arms extend northwards on either side of this feature. The oval space (c. 4m N-S; c. 4m E-W) enclosed between the arms is 0.4m higher than the external ground level. A well which provides water for the cattle lies c. 10m to the NE. Hut sites (CL009-084022-) and (CL009-084023-) lie c. 27m to the SSW and c. 43m to the S respectively.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 25 April 2022
References
Coffey, T. 1990 Field notes. The Other Clare 14, 61.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.