Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Poulnalour, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnalour
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00605, -9.04548
- SMR number
- CL010-104001-
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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 slightly raised ground c. 30m to the N of Lough Avalla, with a small spring well against its W edge. Indicated on Robinson’s (1977) map. Listed as ‘Fulachta fia’ in the RMP (1996), in reference to this and another fulacht fia (CL010-104002-) c. 20m to the SSW, and possibly a third nearby according to a map annotation by Tom Coffey (SMR file). This fulacht fia comprises an overgrown mound (12m N-S; 12m E-W; int. H 0.6-1.1m; ext. H 0.9-1.4m) with an opening (4.4m E-W; 2.3m N-S) to the W. There are facing stones (H 0.2-0.3m) along much of the mound’s edge.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.