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
- 52.97282, -9.26226
- SMR number
- CL015-140003-
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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. A fulacht fia (designated Site C) comprising a small thin spread of heat-shattered stone (L 4m; Wth 2.7m; H 0.1m), which continued N beyond the limit of the excavation (Hanley 2000, 16). No finds were encountered during the excavation (Hanley 1999, 37). Two other fulachtaí fia (CL015-140001- and CL015-140002-) were identified c. 20m to the E, and c. 50m to the E 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 Unpublished archaeological excavation report on behalf of Sheila Lane and Associates.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.