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Fulacht fia

Teeronea, County Clare, Ireland

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

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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

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

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

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