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Fulacht fia

Glenquin, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Glenquin, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glenquin
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01618, -9.13959
SMR number
CL010-312----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 broad terrace on the lower SW-facing slopes of Knockanes hill. A kidney-shaped grass-covered mound (10.5m NNE-SSW; 8m ESE-WNW; max. H 0.8m at S) of limestone fragments in black soil, noted in the field by Jane O’Shaughnessy. The mound curves around a shallow U-shaped hollow (c. 2m N-S; c. 2m E-W) at ESE, opening onto a spring which rises from beneath low bedrock and flows to S.  The S arc of the mound is highest and best defined, with a few large stones protruding on the perimeter at SE and from the top at S; elsewhere the mound has a low profile, barely rising above surrounding ground level at N-NE.

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy

 

Date of upload: 5 November 2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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