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Fulacht fia

Glencolumbkille South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Glencolumbkille 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
Glencolumbkille South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04378, -9.02055
SMR number
CL010-036002-

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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 trees at the base of a rock face (H 2-3m) which rises to the NW. A stream flows SE immediately to the WSW, on the other side of a later field wall. Listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996). This fulacht fia comprises a rectangular area (13m E-W; 8m N-S) of burnt stone and ash, which is highest (1.4-1.6m) at W but lower (0.4-0.8m) elsewhere. Rubble, tree roots and branches were dumped on the W end. The reported presence of a second fulacht fia (CL010-036003-) in the immediate vicinity could not be verified as none was visible at ground level during an inspection in 1999. The remains of a tower house (CL010-036001-) lie c. 30m to the E.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 9 February 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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