Fulacht fia

The National Monuments Service's description

On a scrub-covered karstic terrace on the lower NW slopes of Knockanes ridge, in the Burren National Park. Listed as fulachta fia in the RMP (1996); a cluster of fulachtaí fia in the area was reported by Tom Coffey (1994) on annotated maps (SMR file). A compact horseshoe-shaped mound (9m E−W; 7m N−S; H 0.8m at W) with a well-defined U-shaped central hollow (2.5m N−S; 2m E−W at mouth) open to SW. The E side of the mound abuts jutting bedrock above which a vertical rock faces rises. The W arm of the mound is grass-covered; the E arm is engulfed in a thicket of hazel scrub, and beneath this canopy the mound surface is covered by a thin, patchy layer of moss, exposing in the bare patches a dense concentration of limestone fragments in dark grey/black soil. Another fulacht fia (CL010-143002-) lies c. 50m to the NE on the same terrace and two fulachtaí fia (CL010-143003- and CL010-143004-) are located c. 200m to the SW on a higher terrace.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL010-143001-_01.jpg View from SW

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 10 November 2021

References

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.