Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Fahee North, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.