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Enclosure

Poulgorm, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Poulgorm, County Clare, 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
Poulgorm
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.05755, -9.13206
SMR number
CL005-155----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a SW-facing rocky promontory in elevated flat scrub-covered pasture with steep ravines to the NW and S and excellent views on all sides. Within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). Depicted as an enclosure on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. A heavily overgrown suboval enclosure (c. 17m NE-SW; c. 14m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m; Wth 0.8-1.2m) which is largely concealed by scrub. The wall is built on a natural limestone ledge (H 1.4-1.6m) from W to N. It has intermittently surviving inner and outer wall-facing with rebuilt sections of masonry. The interior is completely covered in scrub. An attached area defined by a stone wall (Wth 1m; H 0.4-0.6m) was noted at NE but was completely overgrown and is not visible on available aerial images. 

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 21 October 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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