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Fulacht fia

Ballyportry North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Ballyportry North, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyportry North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.96671, -9.04422
SMR number
CL017-083001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In wet pasture on the E side of a S-flowing stream, with hazel woods immediately to the W and Shandangan Lough c. 140m to the S. Noted by Ryan (1966-1967) and indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). This fulacht fia (c. 8.5m E-W; c. 8m N-S) comprises a bush-covered, U-shaped bank (Wth 2.2-4.4m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 0.4-1.1m) of burnt and broken stones which is open towards the S and which encloses a small central area (L 2m; Wth 2m). A second fulacht fia (CL017-083002-) lies c. 10m to the NE and a possible third (CL017-083005-) lies just to the W of the stream.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott 

 

Date of upload: 15-10-2025

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (reprint 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of North-West Clare. Map Scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes. Ryan, Rev. M. 1966-7 Fulachta fiadha near Killinaboy, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 218-19.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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