Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Lackareagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackareagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01480, -9.03252
- SMR number
- CL010-151----
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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
Near the NW edge of a small pond in a recently reclaimed part of a field. Identified by Tom Coffey in c. 1994 (SMR file). This well-preserved fulacht fia comprises a horseshoe-shaped mound (9.2m NE-SW; 7m NW-SE; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) which is open to the SE, and surrounding an internal space (2.5m NW-SE; 1.8m NE-SW). There is another fulacht fia (CL010-150----) c. 90m to the NW, and a cashel (CL010-073----) c. 140m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.