Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Leitra, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitra
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02947, -8.98188
- SMR number
- CL010-145----
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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
In low-lying pastureland c. 145m to the NW of a stream and c. 260m to the SSW of Castle Lough. Identified by Tom Coffey in 1994 (SMR file). This partly preserved fulacht fia comprises a grass-covered, crescent-shaped mound (3.1m N-S; 2m E-W; H 0.35-0.5m) of burnt stone, ash and clay which is open to the NW. A slight subcircular hollow (diam. 1.5m; D 0.2m) at the W may indicate the probable original extent of the mound. A later wall lies c. 7m to the S. There is another fulacht fia (CL010-146----) c. 100m to the SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.