Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Poulacapple, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulacapple
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cairnbeg (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08256, -9.21006
- SMR number
- CL005-016----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture near the NE edge of a N-S ridge on the E side of the Caher valley, in a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). There is a good view of Galway Bay to the NE. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Cairnbeg’ on the latter ed. In 1901, Westropp (1901, 278) recorded it as ‘the cairn of Cairnbeg in a wall in Poulacappel’
A large subcircular cairn (20m NE-SW; 19m NW-SE; H 2.8m) with some outer stone-facing visible at SE. A later field wall runs across it from NW-SE. Slab walls run 30m to the E and W off the S end the cairn before turning N to form a large irregularly shaped enclosure/field (c. 155m NNW-SSE); another modern WSW-ENE running wall crosses it at NE and NW. The relationship between the cairn and slab walls is not clear.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 25 January 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.