Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Gortnaboul, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaboul
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97292, -9.26146
- SMR number
- CL015-140001-
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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 a conifer plantation on damp ground c. 75m N of a small stream. One of three fulachtaí fia identified in 1999 during monitoring of a 10m wayleave to a reservoir in Cahereamore as part of the Lisdoonvarna Water Supply Scheme (Hanley 2000). A fulacht fia (designated Site B) (L 12m; Wth 9m; H 0.4m), only the N edge of which was exposed during excavation (7m E-W; 1m N-S; H 0.28m). The excavation uncovered a spread of heat-shattered stone within a charcoal-rich sandy clay. It was overlain by peat and sod and overlay a thin layer of buried sod above a fine clay subsoil. No finds were encountered during the excavation (Hanley 1999, 33-4). Two other fulachtaí fia (CL015-140002- and CL015-140003-) were identified c. 32m to the W, and c. 54m to the W respectively.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 29 October 2025
References
Hanley, K. 1999 A stratigraphic report on the partial excavation of three fulachta fiadhs, identified in the townland of Gortnaboul during the monitoring of the Lisdoonvarna Water Supply Scheme. Licence No. 99E0504. Unpublished archaeological excavation report on behalf of Sheila Lane and Associates.
Hanley, K. 2000 Gortnaboul. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 16. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.