Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Poulnalour, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnalour
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00145, -9.04988
- SMR number
- CL010-165----
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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 poached, clayey ground almost enclosed by hazel but with a patch of rough grazing S-W-N, and with a small stream immediately to the E which flows S before turning to flow SW, to the S of the monument. Listed as ‘Fulachta fia’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a 1994 map annotation by Tom Coffey which indicated four fulachtaí fia at this location (SMR file). During an inspection in 1999, only two were identified— this and a second (CL010-165002-) c. 10m to the S. This fulacht fia comprises a hazel-covered, horseshoe-shaped mound (10m NNE-SSW; 6.8m WNW-ESE; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 0.5-1.3m) of burnt stone and ashy clay which is open towards the ENE and encloses a small central area (2m ENE-WSW; 2m NNW-SSE). A gap in the central part of the mound runs approx. E-W and divides it in two. Some 4m to the S, a small hummock may comprise more burnt fulacht fia material.
A third fulacht fia (CL010-166----) c. 145 m to the ENE and a fourth (CL010-166----) c. 125m to the SE may complete the group of four recorded in the SMR file.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.