Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.