Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Commons North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99440, -9.07639
- SMR number
- CL010-101004-
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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 semi-karst very damp 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 NE. Indicated on a Geological Survey of Ireland map, and also reported by Tom Coffey (SMR map). Listed as one of several ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996) under the number (CL010-101----). This fulacht fia comprises a grass-covered subcircular mound (5m E-W; 4m N-S; max. H 0.5m) with burnt material evident. During an inspection in 1999 it was noted that the mound was being gradually washed away by periodic flooding. There are three fulachta fia nearby: one (CL010-101003-) lies 9m to the ENE; another (CL010-101002-) lies c. 17m to the E; and a large fulacht fia (CL010-101----) lies c. 30m to the E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 30 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.