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Fulacht fia

Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Ballyganner South, 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
Ballyganner South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.00075, -9.16110
SMR number
CL009-189----

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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 base of a steep N-facing slope in a NE-SW ravine, on limestone pavement covered in trees and grass. Within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This fulacht fia comprises a low kidney-shaped mound (11.5m E-W; c. 5m N-S; int. H 0.4-0.7m; ext. H 0.1-0.9m) of small burnt stones and larger unburnt stones (diam. c. 0.23m). The mound is open to the N, and partly encloses a very distinct trough (2.3m E-W; 1.4m N-S) which is lined by upright stones on its S edge. The mound extends on either side of the trough, to the W (Wth c. 4m; H over trough 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m) and to the E (Wth c. 3.5m; H over trough 0.4m; ext. H 0.1m).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 12 July 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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