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Fulacht fia

Leitra, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Leitra, 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
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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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

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

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

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