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Fulacht fia

Fahee North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Fahee North, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Fahee North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04340, -9.04161
SMR number
CL010-133----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

At the NE edge of an area of damp rough grazing (labelled ‘Liable to Floods’ on OS historic mapping), with a small stream flowing W and then SW c. 8m to the N, and with higher ground immediately to the NE-E-SSE. Listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996), in reference to this and another nearby fulacht fia to SSW (CL010-133002-), on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994, SMR file). This well-preserved fulacht fia comprises a horseshoe-shaped mound (16m N-S; 11.8m E-W; int. H 0.7-1m; ext. H 1.2-1.8m) with a narrow opening towards the S and enclosing an internal area (5m N-S; c. 2.2m E-W) with stones embedded along its edges NE-E-S.

See attached image: CL010-133----_01 Monument viewed from S.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 26 May 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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