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
- 53.00961, -9.03384
- SMR number
- CL010-106----
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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
In low-lying damp ground in pasture, with a pond 8m to the N. Within an area marked as ‘Liable to Floods’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated on Robinson’s (1977) map. This large fulacht fia comprises an overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound (c. 14m E-W; 11m N-S; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m) which is open to the N (3.4m E-W; 2m N-S currently). Some burnt stone and ash is exposed in the mound. The N edge of the mound is cut by a later E-W running wall and trackway. There is another fulacht fia (CL010-107----) c. 122m to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.