Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05043, -9.04733
- SMR number
- CL010-128----
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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
Near the W edge of an area of level, damp rough grazing with low cliffs running NE-SW to the W. This fulacht fia comprises a horseshoe-shaped bank (10.3m NNE-SSW; 9.5m WNW-ESE; max. int. H 0.75m at NNE; ext. H 0.5-0.9m) open towards the NW and enclosing a level central area (7.5m NW-SE; 4m NNE-SSW). There are several stones embedded in the bank at NE. One upright slab (H 0.25m) on the inner slope of the bank at SW may be the remains of a facing. A hazel and a whitethorn tree grow on the inner N edge of the interior.
See attached image: CL010-128----_01.JPG Monument viewed from W
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.