Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Poulbaun (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulbaun (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.07100, -9.10956
- SMR number
- CL005-160026-
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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
In elevated rocky pasture on a N-facing slope, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Not shown on the 1840 OS 6-inch map; indicated as an enclosure on the 1916 edition. A subrectangular cashel (33.5m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed slightly battered drystone wall (Wth 0.75-0.8m; int. H 1.2-1.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.75). The inner and outer wall-facing survives intermittently around the monument and the walls are surmounted in places by more recent stonework. A blocked-up gap in the S wall (Wth 1.8m) is probably the original entrance. The interior is level and stony. The remains of two small huts or pens are present in the SW corner.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 30 September 2025
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.