Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Knockans Upper, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockans Upper
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02434, -9.02568
- SMR number
- CL010-148----
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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
On a slight rise at the NW edge of a low-lying marshy field of rushes. Identified by Tom Coffey in 1994 (SMR file). This irregular fulacht fia (12m N-S; 11m E-W) comprises an arc of bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1m) from NE to SE. Its W extent (SW-NW) is merged into higher ground. The central area (5.5m E-W; 4m N-S) may have opened to N or S. Several loose stones at the NW may have been displaced from a trough and there is a large stone at the SW. Another fulacht fia (CL010-142----) lies c. 125m to the NE.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.