Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Clogharevaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogharevaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26688, -8.62829
- SMR number
- GA097-084004-
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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
In level pastureland, some 125m to the S of Clogharevaun Castle (GA097-084001-). Described by Cody (1989, 159, no. 16) as a flat-topped grass-covered mound (12m E-W; 8m N-S; H 0.6m), roughly crescentic in plan and open to the N. The Clogharevaun River flows E-W immediately to its S. Some apparently burnt stone was visible in the river bank towards the W end of the mound. According to Cody (ibid.), the S edge of the fulacht fia was removed when the course of the river was straightened some time between 1838 and 1892. It was originally located c. 10-12m to N of the river.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.