Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyganner North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00058, -9.16687
- SMR number
- CL009-188----
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 gentle E-facing slope on limestone pavement under thin grass cover, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This fulacht fia comprises a grass-covered stony oval mound (9.9m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.2-0.3m) which is highest at the W. The mound overlies a wide natural channel, oriented N-S. A drystone wall runs over the S part of the mound. There is a cashel (CL009-059058-) c. 104m to the W.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-188----_01.jpg View of fulacht fia from W
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.