TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - cashel

Poulbaun (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Poulbaun, 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
Poulbaun (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.06976, -9.10708
SMR number
CL005-160031-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In elevated rocky pasture, with higher ground to the NW and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Indicated as an enclosure on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Marked on Tim Robinson’s Burren map (1977). Listed as ‘Enclosure (possible)’ on the RMP (1996). A square cashel (33.5m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a partially surviving drystone wall (Wth 1.1-1.3m), reduced to a rubble spread (Wth 1.4-1.8m) in places. Short stretches of outer wall-facing survive on the N (H 0.2-0.4m), E (H 0.7m), and S (H 0.8m) sides. No inner wall-facing survives. Most of the W wall appears to be modern. The entrance (Wth 1.15m) is in the E wall and is defined by a slab on its N side (H 0.4m) and stonework on its S side (H 0.45-0.9m). The interior is slightly raised to the E and centre, and a low upright stone in this area may indicate a former internal feature. There is a possible hut site (CL005-312----) in the NW quadrant of the cashel. A cairn (CL005-160048-) with two cists (CL005-160028-; CL005-160047-) is located c. 30m to the S.  

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 30 September 2025

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - cashel in Clare All County Clare records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map