What is recorded here

Indicated is a fulacht fia at the base of Black Head in County Clare, Ireland. It is a D-shaped mound of stone and black clay, 2m from a cliff edge, with its straight side facing east. The shape may have been altered by a nearby 18th or 19th-century farmstead, whose stones still ring its edge. People may have heated water there for cooking, cleaning or ritual, while the sea watched from close beside.

At the base of the W-facing slope of Black Head, on a slight S-facing slope c. 250m E of the seashore. A D-shaped mound (13.4m N–S; 13.6m E–W; H 0.6m–0.8m) of stone and black clay, with its straight side to the E, 2m from a cliff edge (H c.1.5m). It is flat topped except on its western edge where it rises slightly (Wth c.0.2m; H c.0.2m). Its D-shape may partially be the result of interference associated with the adjacent 18th/19th-century farmstead, and large stones around its perimeter may have been placed in an effort to contain it during that same phase of activity. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 14 September 2020

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