Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Leana, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leana
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97772, -9.10105
- SMR number
- CL017-003001-
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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 pasture in a valley running ENE-WSW with overgrown rock outcrop just to the NW on the W side of which is a spring. Indicated on Tim Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). This fulacht fia survives as a low (H 0.3m) clay-covered, U-shaped mound (c. 19m NE-SW; c. 11m NW-SE) which is open to the W, enclosing a central area (c. 5m NE-SW; c. 3m NW-SE).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 18 July 2023
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.