Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Faunarooska (rathborney Ed),poulacapple, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faunarooska (rathborney Ed),poulacapple
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08515, -9.21651
- SMR number
- CL005-015----
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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
Situated on the boundary between Poulacapple and Faunrooska townlands, in rough pasture near the N edge of a N-S ridge on the E side of the Caher valley, in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as an earthwork in the RMP (1996). A large cairn (20m E-W; 19m N-S; H 2.2-2.6m). Some upright stones (max. H 0.5m) to the E suggest the site may have served as a burial ground for children. A cashel (CL005-015002-) and hut site (CL005-015004-) are located c. 90m to the S.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 13 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.