Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Poulacapple, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulacapple
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.09049, -9.20188
- SMR number
- CL005-014011-
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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
Under hazel scrub on the S side of a small stream, c. 250m W of Rathborney River, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). A small, penannular area (17.5m E-W; 12m N-S) open to the NW and defined by a broad, grass-covered bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m) containing burnt limestone, with internal facing stones (H 0.4-1m) from N to W.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 8 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.