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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, -9.04423
SMR number
CL017-083002-

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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 pastureland 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 comprises a grass-covered oval mound (5.5m ENE-WSW; 2.5-3m NNW-SSE; max. H 0.6m) of burnt and broken stones. A low mound (diam. 3.5-4.5m; H 0.2m) two metres to the W appears to be related. A second fulacht fia (CL017-083001-) lies c. 10m to the SW and to its W, just across the stream, are the remains of a possible third (CL017-083005-).

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott 

 

Date of upload: 15-10-2025

References

Ryan, Rev. M. 1966-7 Fulachta fiadha near Killinaboy, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 218-19. 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.

Nearby in the register

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

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