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
- 53.02908, -8.98025
- SMR number
- CL010-146----
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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 damp pastureland on the NW side of a small stream which flows SW from Castle Lough. Listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994, SMR file), where two fulachtaí fia are marked. This fulacht fia comprises a linear grass-covered mound (10m NNE-SSW; max. 4m WNW-ESE; max. H 0.8m at E; min. H 0.25m at W) of burnt stone and earth which curves NW at its SSW end. There is a large white stone at the centre of the E edge. Holly bushes grow on the NNE edge. A later NE-SW wall overlies the SW end. There is another fulacht fia (CL010-145----) c. 100m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 7 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.