Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Poulgorm, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.