Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockans Lower, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockans Lower
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02509, -9.00632
- SMR number
- CL010-147----
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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
On the steep NW slope of Knockanes Hill. Identified by Tom Coffey in 1994 SMR file). This fulacht fia is defined by a horseshoe-shaped mound (11m WNW-ESE; 9m NNE-SSW; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.4m) of stone and earth, overgrown by grass, with the opening (5m NNE-SSW; 3m WNW-ESE) to the SSW. Rough stonework delimits the N half of the opening. There is a spring well immediately to the SE of the fulacht fia. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 7 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.