Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Teeronea, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teeronea
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81522, -8.75176
- SMR number
- CL043-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Listed as ‘Potential site, documentation’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) with the Irish Grid reference 14927, 17403 (ITM 549225, 674060) as the word ‘Canoe’ was written at that location on to a set of OS 1st edition 6-inch maps used by T.J. Westropp. The canoe was found in 1989 and was the subject of a rescue excavation by the National Museum. Analysis of the canoe revealed that it had been used as a trough for a fulacht fia and it was radiocarbon dated to 1550 BC (Clare Champion 30 August 1991). The correct find spot (ITM 549323, 674070) some 95m to the E) was pointed out to Forest Service in May 2019 by the landowner and burnt stone was still evident at the surface.
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 28 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.