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
- 53.06799, -9.10553
- SMR number
- CL005-160032-
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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 rocky pasture, on the S-facing slope of a hill with clear views to E and S and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-).Indicated as an enclosure on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ on the RMP (1996). A subcircular cashel (21m NW-SE; 20.5m NE-SW) defined by a partially collapsed drystone wall (Wth 2-2.2m). The outer wall-facing survives intermittently and is highest at WNW (H 0.5-1.1m). No inner wall-facing survives. The entrance is to the N (Wth 0.7m) and is defined by a jambstone (H 0.9m) on its E side with possible masonry facing on its W side. The interior slopes gently down to the S and there are no visible internal features. A drystone field wall is superimposed on the monument from SE to NE, and continues E forming an enclosure abutting the E side of the cashel.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 30 September 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.