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Fulacht fia

Clogh West, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Clogh West, County Limerick, 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
Clogh West
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.54597, -8.89916
SMR number
LI020-165----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Excavation by Graham Hull (02E1436) 'as part of Bord Gáis Éireann's Pipeline to the West revealed a single shallow depression, roughly oval, measuring 1.38m (north-east/south-west) by 0.95m by 0.1m deep, was excavated. The sides sloped gently down to a roughly flat base. The shallow and uneven form of the depression suggested a natural hollow that had been filled with the remnants of a larger spread. The deposit found in the depression was typical fulacht fiadh material: burnt and fire-cracked stone with frequent charcoal fragments. This discrete deposit of fulacht material may have been one of the 'few shovel-fulls of burned material, well trodden into the ground, and difficult to identify' noted by Coffey (1984).' This description is posted on the web at the following internet address (accessed 3 August 2012): http://www.excavations.ie/

Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of Upload: 8 August 2012

Reference
Coffey, T. (1984) 'Fulachta fiadha in the Burren', The Other Clare 8, 60-3.

Nearby in the register

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

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