Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullycommon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02350, -9.07674
- SMR number
- CL010-059004-
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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 slight rise in rough pasture, with some overgrowth, and within a field system (CL010-059001-). This fulacht fia comprises a partly grass-covered, horseshoe-shaped mound (10m N-S; 6.3m E-W; H 0.4-0.7m) of burnt stone and ash, partially enclosing a roughly square-shaped trough area (2m N-S; 2m E-W; D 0.25m) which is open towards the E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.