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Fulacht fia

Fortane Beg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Fortane Beg, 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
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----

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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

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

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

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