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Fulacht fia

Commons North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Commons North, 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
Commons North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99445, -9.07618
SMR number
CL010-101003-

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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

On semi-karst ground in rough pasture, at the N end of a damp rush-covered area with some periodic surface water and land rising to the N. On the 1897 25-inch OS plan a spring is marked just to the NW. Indicated on a Geological Survey of Ireland map, and also reported by Tom Coffey (SMR file). Listed as one of several ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996) under the number (CL010-101----). This fulacht fia comprises an irregular grass-covered oval mound (9.5m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.5-0.8m) with a slight indent (Wth 2m; D 0.6m) on its N side, facing NNW. The W end of the mound overlies bare rock outcrop. There are three fulachta fia nearby: one (CL010-101002-) lies 3m to the SSE; another (CL010-101004-) lies 9m to the WSW; and a larger fulacht fia (CL010-101----) lies c. 13.5m to the ESE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 30 May 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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