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
- 53.00814, -9.03456
- SMR number
- CL010-107----
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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
In low-lying damp ground in pasture, with a pond nearby to the NE and rocky but also wet ground to NW-NE. At the S margin of an area marked as ‘Liable to Floods’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated on Robinson’s (1977) map. This small fulacht fia comprises a grass-covered horseshoe-shaped mound (c. 10m E-W; 8m N-S; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) which is open to the S (4m E-W; c. 3m N-S). There is another fulacht fia (CL010-106----) c. 122m to the N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.