Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Derreen (kilshanny Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreen (kilshanny Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97704, -9.30553
- SMR number
- CL015-130----
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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 low-lying marshy ground alongside a small stream that flows W, with higher ground on all sides, but with views to the NW. A fulacht fia comprising a subcircular mound (15.3m N-S; 13.7m E-W; H 0.2m) with a subrectangular hollow toward its SW edge (4m N-S; 2.4m E-W; D 0.5m). To the E, an earthen lip (H 0.5m; Wth 2m) may form part of the monument or may be a natural feature. The mound is covered in long grass, nettles and some scattered field stones. A ringfort (CL015-014----) lies c. 76m to the NW and a ring-barrow (CL015-019----) lies c. 113m to the ESE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 29 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.