Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Gortlecka, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortlecka
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99638, -9.00099
- SMR number
- CL010-172----
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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
In trees and rough grazing near the W shore of Coolreash Lough in an area marked ‘Liable to Floods’ on OS mapping. Listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996), on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994, SMR file). This fulacht fia comprises a grass-covered mound (14m NE-SW; 4.8m NW-SE; H 0.3-0.5m) of small stones which, however, do not appear to be burnt. This is the southernmost of four fulachtaí fia in this area: CL010-171---- c. 80m to the NE, CL010-171002- c. 140m to the NNE and CL010-171003-c. 195m to the N. The monuments are roughly equidistant, averaging c. 65-70m apart.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.