Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Tullagh Upper, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullagh Upper
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96661, -9.19871
- SMR number
- CL016-152----
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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
At the bottom of a NE-facing slope in rough pasture, overlooking a stream c. 5m to the N. Recorded by MacMahon (1991, 48) who noted that, according to local information, in the past this monument and similar ones in the locality were known as a ‘cearta [sic] brannach’. The term ‘ceárta’ means forge and whenever such mounds were disturbed by ploughing ‘they were found to contain material similar to the debris sometimes seen around a blacksmith’s fire.’
A classic horseshoe-shaped fulacht fia defined by a grass-covered mound (max. dims. 10.1m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE; H 0.3-0.8m) opening to the NW. The sunken area marks the trough (3.2m NW-SE; 1.6m NE-SW).
The following image has been uploaded: CL016-152----_01.jpg View from W
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 4 August 2022
References
MacMahon, M. 1991 In Clare fields. The Other Clare 15, 46-8.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.