Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Fortane Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortane Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86162, -8.70634
- SMR number
- CL035-173----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At the NW corner of a fairly level field in pasture and just c. 6m E of a stream. A large grassed-over horseshoe-shaped mound (17.9m N-S) with light poaching at N revealing very compacted burnt stone and clay. The fulacht is open (3.45m NE-SW; 7.5m NW-SE) to the WSW. The bank dips for c. 6.5m at NE. Four ash trees and one hawthorn grow on the S end of the mound. An unclassified megalithic tomb (CL035-146----) lies c. 140m to the W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 22 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.