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
- 53.00070, -9.04828
- SMR number
- CL010-167----
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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
Listed as a fulacht fia in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a Tom Coffey map annotation (SMR file, 1994).
On the exposed limestone shoulder of a ridge, much overgrown with hazel and with damp lower ground c. 20m to the SE and several springs nearby to the E. No visible surface trace was found on inspection in 1999.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 June 2023
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
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.